Hawckins Lino, Lebora, Medical terminology unit 3, 8th period

aden/o

gland

adip/o

fat, fatty tissue

albin/o

white

aut/o

self, same

bi/o

life

blephar/o

eyelid

carcin/o

cancer

caus/o

burn, burning, heat

cauter/o

heat, burn

chem/o

chemical, drug

chrom/o

color

cis/o

to cut

cry/o

cold or freezing

crypt/o

hidden

cutane/o

skin

cyan/o

blue

cyt/o

cell

derm/a

skin

derm/o

skin

dermat/o

skin

diaphor/o

profuse sweating

ecchym/o

blood in the tissues

erythem/o

redness

erythemat/o

redness

erythr/o

red

heter/o

different, other

hidr/o

sweat

hist/o

tissue

hom/o

same, alike

ichthy/o

dry, scaly

immun/o

immune, protection

integument/o

covering

jaund/o

yellow

kerat/o

horny tissue, hard, or cornea of the eye

leuk/o

white

lip/o

fat or lipid

melan/o

black

myc/o

fungus

necr/o

death

onych/o

fingernail, toenail

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 (oil, grease, fat)

squm/o

scale or scale-like

steat/o

fat, sebum

therm/o

hot, heat

trich/o

hair

ungu/o

nail

xanth/o

yellow, yellowish

xen/o

foreign or strange

xer/o

dry or dryness

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

pertaining to

-cyte

cell

-derma

skin

-dermis

skin

-ectomy

surgical removal, excision