MedTerm Ch. 4: Integumentary System (roots/suffixes/prefixes)

100%

adip/o, lip/o

fat

cutane/o, derm/o, dermat/o

skin

hidr/o, sudor/o

sweat, perspiration

ichthy/o

dry, scaly

melan/o

black

myc/o

fungus

onych/o

nail

pil/o, trich/o

hair

scler/o

hardening, sclera

seb/o

sebum, sebaceous

squam/o

scale

xen/o

foreign, strange

xer/o

dry

-cyte

cell

-derma

skin

-ologist

specialist in the study of

-ology

study of

-therapy

treatment

an-

without, not

epi-

above, upon

homo-

same