Integumentary system word elements

Adip/o lip/o steat/o

fat(…. ….. …...)

steat/o

fat(no adip/o lip/o for this one)

dermat/o derm/o

skin (not cutane/o)

cutane/o

skin (not dermat/o dermat/o)

hidr/o

sweat ( not sudor/o)

sudor/o

sweat (not hidr/o)

kerat/o

horny tissue; hard; cornea

melan/o

black

myc/o

fungus (plural, fungi)

onych/o

nail

pil/o

hair (not trich/o)

trich/o

hair (not pil/o)

scler/o

hardening; sclera (white of eyes)

seb/o

sebum, sebaceous

squam/o

scale

xen/o

foreign, strange

xer/o

dry

-cyte

cell

-derma

skin

-logist

specialist in the study of

-logy

study of

-therapy

treatment

an-

without, not

dia-

through, across

epi-

above, upon

homo-

same

hyper-

excessive, above normal

sub-

under, below

Bx, bx

biopsy

C&S

culture and sensitivity

I&D

incision and drainage

CA

cancer; chronological age; cardiac arrest