MT Chapter 3 WORD PARTS Integumentary System (GW)

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

chrom/o

color

cis/o

to cut

cry/o

cold

crypt/o

hidden

cutane/o

skin

cyan/o

blue

cyt/o

cell

derm/a

skin

dermat/o

skin

derm/o

skin

diaphor/o

profuse sweating

ecchym/o

blood in the tissues

erythem/o

redness

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

therm/o

hot; heat

trich/o

hair

ungu/o

nail

xanth/o

yellow; yellowish

xen/o

foreign; unlike species

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

-genesis

formation

-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

process; abnormal condition

-phagia

eating; swallowing

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhea

flow; excessive discharge

-therapy

treatment

-tome

instrument used to cut thin sections