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Wk 2 - Integumentary
Week 2 - Integumentary System Medical Terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adip/o, lip/o, steat/o | fat |
| carcin/o | cancer |
| cutane/o, dermat/o, derm/o | skin |
| cyan/o | blue |
| hidr/o, sudor/o | sweat |
| hydr/o | water |
| ichthy/o | dry, scaly |
| kerat/o | horny tissue, hard, cornea |
| melan/o | black |
| myc/o | fungus |
| onych/o | nail |
| path/o | disease |
| pil/o, trich/o | hair |
| scler/o | hardening, sclera (White of eye) |
| seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
| squam/o | scale |
| vascul/o | vessel (usually blood or lymph) |
| xanth/o | yellow |
| xen/o | foreign, strange |
| xer/o | dry |
| -cele | hernia, swelling |
| -cyte | cell |
| -derma | skin |
| -ectomy | excision, removal |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| -logy | study of |
| -malacia | softening |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | abnormal condition, increase (used primarily with blood cells) |
| -pathy | disease |
| -phoresis | carrying, transmission |
| -plasia | formation, growth |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -ptosis | prolapse (sags, falls out of its position), downward displacement |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -tomy | incision |
| an- | without, not |
| anti- | against |
| bi- | two |
| epi- | above, on |
| hyper- | excessive, above normal |
| hypo- | under, below, deficient |
| inter- | between |
| intra- | in, within |
| para- | near, beside, beyond |
| sub- | under, below |
| aden- | gland |
| dia- | through, across |
| -oid | resembling |
| necr/o | death |
| -penia | decrease, abnormal reduction |
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