integumentary system
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35 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adip/o, lip/o,steat/o | fat |
| cutane/o, dermat/o, derm/o, -derma | skin |
| hidr/o,sudor/o | sweat |
| ichty/o | dry, scaly |
| kerat/o | horny tissue, hard, cornea |
| melan/o | black |
| myc/o | fungus plural is fungi |
| onych/o | nail |
| pil/o trich/o | hair |
| scler/o | hardening sclera (white of eye) |
| seb/o | sebum, sebacceous |
| squam/o | scale |
| xer/o | dry |
| -oid | resembling |
| -phoresis | carrying transmission |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -cele | hernia swelling |
| -cyte | cell |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -ous | pertaining to |
| -logist | specialist in study of |
| hypo- | under below deficient |
| aden | gland |
| hydr/o | water |
| -esis | condition |
| -osis | abnormal condition increase (primarily used with white blood cells) |
| -oma | tumor |
| -malacai | softening |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -pathy | disease |
| -rrhea | discharge flow |
| py/o | pus |
| dia- | through across |
| cry/o | cold |
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