Chapter 4 Intro to Med Terms E1 for HOSA SQT Integumentary System

albin/o

white

aut/o

self

blephar/o

eyelid

carcin/o

cancer

caus/o

burn/heat

cauter

heat

cis/o

to cut

cry/o

cold

cyan/o

blue

derm/a, dermat/o, derm/o, cutane/o

skin

diaphor/o

profuse sweating

ecchym/o

blood in the tissues

erythem/o, erythemat/o

redness

erythr/o

red

hidr/o

sweat

hist/o

tissue

ichthy/o

dry or scaly

immun/o

immune, protection

integument/o

covering

jaund/o

yellow

kerat/o

hard, horn shaped tissue

lip/o, adip/o

fat

melan/o

black

myc/o

fungus

necr/o

death

onych/o, ungu/o

nail

papill/o

nipple-like

pil/o

hair/hair follicle

prurit/o, psor/o

itching

py/o

pus

rhytid/o

wrinkle

scler/o

hardening

seb/o

sebum

sqaum/o

scale

steat/o

fat, sebum

trich/o

hair

xer/o

dry

aden/o

gland

per-

through

albinism

condition where all hair and skin turns white

cyanosis

abnormal condition where skin turns blue

ecchymosis

abnormal condition of bruises where blood enters the tissue from ruptured blood vessels

psoriasis

abnormal condition of itchy skin

scleroderma

hardening of the skin progressively

biopsy

visual examination of living tissue

blepharoplasty

surgical repair of the eyelid

dermatoplasty

surgical repair of the skin

lipectomy

removal of fat tissue

rhytidectomy

removal of the wrinkles

sclerotherapy

therapy where injection causes hardening of tissue