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Chapter 16/skin
Chabner chapter 16 Combining forms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adip/o | fat |
| albin/o | white |
| caus/o | burn, burning |
| cauter/o | heat, burning |
| cutane/o | skin |
| derm/o | skin |
| demat/o | skin |
| diaphor/o | profuse sweating |
| erythem/o | Condition of redness |
| erythemat/o | Redness |
| hidr/o | sweat |
| hydr/o | water |
| ichthy/o | scaly-dry (Fish like) |
| kerat/o | hard, horny tissue |
| leuk/o | white |
| lip/0 | fat |
| Melan/o | black |
| myc/o | fungus |
| onych/o | nail |
| phyt/o | plant |
| pil/o | hair |
| py/o | pus |
| rhytid/o | wrinkle |
| seb/o | sebum (oily secretion) |
| sebace/o | Relationship to the sebum |
| squam/o | scale like |
| steat/o | fat |
| trich/o | hair |
| ungu/o | nail |
| xnth/o | yellow |
| xer/o | dry |
| -algia | pain |
| -derma | skin |
| -esis | condition |
| -lysis | loosing/ destruction |
| -ose | full of-pertains to sugar |
| -osis | abnormal condition |
| -plakia | plaque |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhea | flow-discharge |