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MEd term Chpt 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hair, nails, sebaceous glands, skin, sweat glands | primary structures that comprise the integumentary system: |
| albin/o | white |
| cauter/o | to burn |
| cry/o | cold |
| cutane/o | skin |
| derm/o | skin |
| dermat/o | skin |
| diaphor/o | profuse sweating |
| electr/o | electricity |
| erythr/o | red |
| hidr/o | sweat |
| ichthy/o | scaly, dry |
| kerat/o | hard, horny |
| leuk/o | white |
| lip/o | fat |
| melan/o | black |
| myc/o | fungus |
| necr/o | death |
| onych/o | nail |
| pedicul/o | lice |
| protection, sensory reception, fluid secretion, temperature regulation | function of the skin |
| phot/o | light |
| py/o | pus |
| rhytid/o | wrinkle |
| sarc/o | flesh |
| scler/o | hard |
| seb/o | oil |
| system/o | system |
| trich/o | hair |
| ungu/o | nail |
| vesic/o | sac, bladder |
| xer/o | dry |
| -derma | skin condition |
| allo- | other, different from usual |
| xeno- | foreign |
| above the skin; no blood supply or connective tissue | EPIDERMIS |
| deepest layer in epidermis; cells become keratin; contains melanocytes (produce melanin) | STRATUM BASALE; BASAL LAYER |
| deeper layer of skin; composed of connective tissue and collagen fibers; CONTAINS: hair follicles, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, blood vessels, lymph vessels, sensory receptors, nerve fibers, and muscle fibers | THE DERMIS |
| continuous layer of fat to separate dermin from deeper tissues; CONTAINS lipocytes (fat cells); source of energy if u starving | SUBCUTANEOUS LAYER/ hypodermis |
| sweat glands; CONTAINS sweat duct, sweat pores, sudoriferous glands (odorless), apocrine glands (stank sweat w bacteria) | SEBACEOUS GLANDS |
| hem/o | blood |
| angi/o | vessel |
| bas/o | base |
| parts: sebaceous glands, arrector pili, shaft of hair, hair follicle, hair root | HAIR |
| cuticle, free edge, lunula (the light colored half moon area at base of nail), nail bed, nail body, nail root | NAILS |
| cis/o | to cut |
| cortic/o | outer layer |
| cyt/o | cell |
| esthesi/o | feeling |
| septic/o | infection |
| -ectomy | surgical removal |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -ia | state, condition |
Created by:
Karen.