Integumentary System Medical Word Elements

Word elements, combining forms, prefixes and suffixes

adip/o, lip/o, steat/o

fat

cutane/o, dermat/o, derm/o

Skin

hidr/o, sudor/o

Sweat

ichthy/o

Dry, scaly

kerat/o

Horny tissue, hard, cornea

melan/o

Black

Myc/o

Fungus

Onych/o, ungu/o

Nail

Pil/o, trich/o

Hair

Scler/o

hardening, sclera (white of eye)

seb/o

sebum, sebaceous

squam/o

Scale

xen/o

Foreign, strange

Xer/o

Dry

Prefix: an-

Without, not

Prefix: dia-

through, across

Prefix: epi-

above, upon

Prefix: homo-

Same

Prefix: hyper-

excessive, above normal

Prefix: sub-

Under, below

Suffix: -cyte

Cell

Suffix: -derma

Skin

Suffix: -logist

Specialist in the study of

Suffix: -logy

Study of

Suffix: -therapy

Treatment