Chapter 4 Quiz Review

aden/o

gland

adip/o

fat

albin/o

white

aut/o

self

bi/o

life

blephar/o

eyelid

carcin/o

cancer

caus/o

burn; burning; heat

cauter/o

heat, burn

cis/o

to cut

cry/o

cold

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 tissues

erthem/o, erythemat/o

redness

erythr/o

red

hidr/o

sweat

hist/o

tissue

ichthy/o

dry, scaly

immun/o

immune, protection

integument/o

covering

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

nipple-like

pil/o

hair, hair follicle

prurit/o

itching

psor/o

itching

py/o

pus

rhytid/o

wrinkle

scler/o

hardening

seb/o

sebum (oily secretion from sebaceous glands)

squam/o

scale

steat/o

fat, sebum

trich/o

hair

ungu/o

nail

xer/o

dry

a-, an-

not, without

auto-

self

e-, ex-

out, away from

epi-

on; over; upon

hyper-

above; above normal; excessive

hypo-

below; below normal; deficient

in-

in, into, not

intra-

within, into

para-

near; beside; alongside; beyond; abnormal

per-

through

sub-

below, under

-al, -ary, -ic, -ous, -tic

pertaining to

-cyte

cell

-derma

skin

-dermis

skin

-ectomy

surgical removal, excision

-ema

condition

-esis

action; condition; state of

-esthesia

feeling, sensation

-iasis

abnormal condition

-ion

process; state; condition

-ism

process, condition

-itis

inflammation

-logy

study of

-oma

tumor, mass

-opsy

view of, viewing

-ose

full of; pertaining to; sugar

-osis

abnormal condition

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhea

flow, excessive discharge

-therapy

treatment