Medical Terminology - Integumentary, Sensory, and Nervous Systems

A set of vocabulary flashcards covering root words and suffixes related to the integumentary system, sensory system (eyes), and nervous system from the lecture notes.

Adip/o

fatty tissue

Albin/o

white

Caus/o

burn

Cutane/o

at the skin layer

Derm/o

skin

Dermat/o

skin

Diaphor/o

Sweat/perspiration

Erythem/o

redness of the skin

Hidr/o

sweat, sweat glands

Hist/o

tissue

Ichthy/o

relating to dry, scaly skin

Kerat/o

cornea

Leuk/o

White?

Lip/o

fat

Melan/o

to do with melanin/melanocytes. pigment

Myc/o

fungus

Onych/o

finger/toenails

Phyt/o

plant/veggie

Pil/o

hair

Seb/o

oily

Squam/o

scaly?

Steat/o

fat/tallow

Trich/o

hair

Ungu/o

nail

Xanth/o

yellow

Uve/o

vascular middle layer of the eye.

Vitre/o

vitreous body of eye

Xer/o

dryness, dry.

-chalasis

relaxed/loose/stretched

-opia

eye/vision

-opsia

eye/vision disorder

-tropia

turn/deviation of eye

Aque/o

water

Ambly/o

dull, dim (amblyopia, lazy eye)

Blephar/o

eye lid

Conjunctiv/o

conjunctiva

Cor/o

pupil

Corne/o

eyes

Cycl/o

ciliary body/ or muscle

Dipl/o

double

Dacry/o

tear/tear duct

Dacryocyst/o

inflammation of tear duct

Emmetr/o

correct/normal

Glauc/o

gray

Ir/o, Irid/o

iris

Lacrim/o

tears

Mi/o

narrower/smaller

Mydr/o

widened/enlarged

Nyct/o

night

Ocul/o

eye

Ophthalm/o

eye

Opt/o

vision

Optic/o

eyes

Photo/o

light

Presby/o

old age

Palpebr/o

eyelid

Papill/o

optic disc

Phac/o

lens (of the eye)

Phak/o

Lens of the eye

Pupil/o

eyes

Retin/o

Retina

Scler/o

sclera (white part of the eye)

Sclero/o

Hard/hardening

-algesia

sensitivity to pain

-algia

pain

-esthesia

sensation

-kinesia

movement

-kinesis

movement

-lepsy

seizure

-paresis

slight paralysis

-phasia

speech

-plegia

paralysis

-praxia

planning movement

-sthenia

strength