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5.A.2 root words
med term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adipo | fat |
| lip/o | fat |
| steat/o | fat |
| cutane | skin |
| dermat | skin |
| derm | skin |
| hidro | sweat |
| sudor | sweat |
| ichthy/o | dry, scaly |
| kerat/o | horny tissue, hard, cornea |
| melan | black |
| myc | fungus |
| onych | nail |
| ungu | nail |
| pil | hair |
| trich | hair |
| scler | hardening, sclero |
| seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
| squam | scale |
| xen | foreign, strange |
| xer | dry |
| cyte | cell |
| derma | skin |
| logist | specialist in the study of |
| logy | study of |
| therapy | treatment |
| an- | without, not |
| epi- | above, upon |
| homo- | same |
| dermatology | specialty in diseases that effect the skin |
| dermatologist | someone who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of kin diseases |
| lesions | tissue that has been pathologically altered by injury, wound, or infection |
| localized | covers an area of definite size |
| systemic | widely spread throughout the body |
| primary skin lesions | the initial reaction to lesions |
| secondary skin lesions | changes that take place in the primary lesion as a result of infection, scratching, trauma, or various stages of a disease |