Acquiring Medical Language
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| abrasion | scraping away of skin
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| albinism | lack of pigment in skin causing patient to look white
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| albino | a person afflicted with albinism
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| alopecia | baldness
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| anhidrosis | lack of sweating
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| comedo | a hair follicle that is plugged with sebum
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| cyanidrosis | blue sweat
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| depigmentation | loss of pigment
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| dermatalgia | skin pain
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| dermatodynia | skin pain
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| dermatolysis | loose skin
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| erythema | redness
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| erythroderma | red skin
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| hemathidrosis | sweating blood
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| hidropoiesis | the formation of sweat
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| hyperhidrosis | excessive sweating
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| hyperkerotosis | excessive growth of horny skin
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| hypermelanosis | excessive melanin in the skin
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| hyperpigmentation | excessive pigment in the skin
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| hypohidrosis | diminished sweating
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| hypomalanosis | diminished melanin in the skin
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| hypopigmentation | diminished pigment in the skin
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| leukoderma | white skin
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| mascerate | to soften the skin
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| onchophagia | eating or biting the nails
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| pruritis | an itch
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| rhytidermia | wrinkled skin
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| sebopoiesis | formation of oil (sebum)
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| seborrhes | discharge of oil (sebum)
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| trichomegaly | abnormally thick hair
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| uticaria | swollen raised itchy areas of the skin
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| xanthoderma | yellow skin
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| xeroderma | dry skin
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| xerosis | condition of dryness
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