Kaplan Medical terminology
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bizzyd on October 30, 2008
Subjects:
chapter 5 medical word elements, combining forms, integumentary system
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adip/o Fat | Fat; adip/osis: abnormal accumulationn of fat in the body |
| lip/o Fat | lip/o/cele: hernia containing fat or fatty tissue |
| steat/o Fat | steat/itis; inflammation of adipose (fatty) tissue |
| cutane/o Skin | skin; sub/cutane/ous; beneath the skin |
| dermat/o Skin | dermat/o/plasty; plasitc surgery of the skin as in skin grafting |
| derm/o Skin | hypo/derm/ic; under or inserted under the skin, as in a hypodermic injection |
| hidr/o Sweat | hidr/aden/itis; inflammation of the sweat glands |
| sudor/o Sweat | sudor/esis; profuse sweating |
| ichthy/o dry, scaly | ichthy/osis; any of several dermatologic conditions in which the skin is dry and hyperkeratotic (hardened) resembling fish scales |
| kerat/o horny tissue;hard; cornea | kerat/osis; thickened area of the epidermis; any horny growth on the skin such as a callus or wart |
| melan/o black | melan/oma; malignant tumor of melanocytes that commonly begins in a darkly pigmened mole and metastasize widely |
| myc/o fungus | dermat/o/myc/osis; fungal infection of the skin |
| onych/o nail | onych/o/malacia; abnromal softening of the nails |
| ungu/o nail | ungu/al; pertaining to the nails |
| pil/o hair | pil/o/nid/al; a growth of hair in a cyst or other internal structure |
| trich/o hair | trich/o/pathy; any disease involving the hair |
| scer/o hardening; sclera ( white of eye) | scler/o/derma; chronic hardening and thickening of the skin caused by new collagen formation |
| seb/o sebum, sebaceous | seb/o/rrhea; excessive secretion or dishcarge of sebum |
| squam/o scale | squam/ous; relating to or covered with scales |
| xen/o foreign, strange | xen/o/graft; surgical graft of tissue from an individual of another species; also called heterograft |
| xer/o dry | xer/o/derma; chronic skin condition characterized by dryness and roughness |
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