integumentary system

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, dermat/o, derm/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;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

mytid/o

wrinkle

scler/o

hardening

seb/o

sebum

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-

into;in;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

-rrhea

flow;excessive discharge

-osis

process

-phagia

eating;swallowing

-plasty

surgical repair;removal;excision

-therapy

treatment

-tome

instrument used to cut thin sections

-ose

full of;pertaining to

-opsy

view of;viewing