ch 4- combining forms

aden/o

gland

adip/o

fat

albin/ o

white

aut/o

self

bi/o

life

blether/o

eyelid

carbon/o cancer

caus/o

burn, burning, heat

cauter/o

heat, burn

cry/o

cold

butane/o

skin

cyan/o

blue

cyt/o

cell

derm/a, derm/o, derma/o

skin

diaper/o

profuse sweating

ecchym/o

blood in the tissue

erythem/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

melon/o

black

myc/o

fingus

necr/o

death

onych/o

nail

papill/o

nipple like

pil/o

hair, hair follicles

prurit/o

itching

psor/o (2nd)

itching (2nd)

py/o

pus

rhytid/o

wrinkle

scler/o

hardening

seb/o

sebum ( oily secretion from sebaceous)

squam/o

scale

steat/o

fat, sebum

trich/o

hair

ungu/o (2nd)

nail (2nd)

xer/o

dry.