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Medical Terminology
terms w/ abbreviation
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vesicle | Ves - bladder Icle - little a small blister |
| Scale | skin flaking off |
| Telangiectasia | Tel - end Angi - blood vessel ectasia - expansion the overexpansion of the end of a blood vessel; sometimes called spider angioma bc of how it looks on the skin |
| Bulla | bubble |
| Pustule | little blister |
| Crust | a dried substance |
| Petechia | freckle or spot - a small bruise |
| Vascular Lesion | Vascular Lesion - blood vessel wound wounds related to blood vessels |
| Cherry Angioma | Angi - blood vessel Oma - tumor |
| Hematidrosis | Hemat - blood Hidr - sweat Osis- condition sweating blood |
| Hidropoiesis | Hyper - over Hidr -sweat Osis - condition excessive sweating |
| DermatoScope | Dermato - skin Scope - instrument to look instrument used to look at the skin |
| DermoScopy | Dermo - skin Scopy - looking procedure procedure for looking at the skin |
| Keratogenic | Kerato - horny Gen - creation Ic - pertaining to causing horny tissue development |
| Keratosis | Kerato - horny Osis - condition horny tissue condition |
| Cicatrix (plural: cicatrice) | scar |
| Keloid | Kel - tumor Oid - resembling |
| Epidermal Tumors | Epi - upon Derm - skin Al tumor - pertaining to tumor tumors on the skin |
| Paroncychia | Par - around Onych - nail Ia - condition a condition of the tissue around the nail |
| Steatoma | Steat - fat Oma - tumor fatty tumor |