Medical Term. Ch3

Vocabulary-style flashcards listing dermatology-related combining forms and their meanings.

albin/o

white

aut/o

self

aden/o

gland

adip/o

fat

bi/o

life

blephar/o

eyelid

carcin/o

cancer

caus/o

burn, burning, heat

cauter/o

heat, burn

chrom/o

color

cis/o

to cut

cry/o

cold

crypt/o

hidden

cutane/o

skin

cyan/o

blue

cyt/o

cell

derm/a, dermat/o, derm/o

skin

diaphor/o

profuse sweating

ecchym/o

blood in the tissue

erythemat/o, erythem/o

redness

erythr/o

red

hidr/o

sweat

hist/o

tissue

ichthy/o

dry; scaly skin

immun/o

immune protection

integument/o

covering (skin)

jaund/o

yellow

kerat/o

hard, horn-shaped tissue

lip/o

fat

melan/o

black

myc/o

fungus

necr/o

death

onych/o

nail

papill/o

optic disk, nipple like

pil/o

hair, hair follicle

prurit/o

itching

psor/o

itching

py/o

pus

rhytid/o

wrinkle

scler/o

hardness

seb/o

sebum

squam/o

scale

steat/o

fat; lipid

therm/o

heat

trich/o

hair

ungu/o

nail; claw

xanth/o

yellow

xen/o

foreign;strange

xer/o

dry