Med Term Unit 4 Root Words

abrasion

scraping off of skin

acne

skin eruption

actin

ray, beam

aden

gland

adip/o

fat

albin/o

the color white

alopec

bald

amine

chemical group containing nitrogen

andro

male

angi/o

vessel

bili

bile

carcin

cancer

carot

carrot; the color orange

cauter[ium]

device used to burn

cer/at

horn

cicatrix

scar

circ

a ring; circle

cision

cut

comedo

zit

cori/a

leather; skin

corn

horn

crine

secretion; release from cells or from the body

crust

crust; rind

crypt

hidden; concealed

cub

lie down

cutan/e/o

skin

cyan

the color blue

cyt; cyte; cyto

cell

dendr/o

tree

derm/at/o

skin

desicc

dry

ecchymosis

bleeding under the skin

electr/o

related to electricity

erosion

gnawing away

erythr/o

the color red

esthe

sensation; perception

fibr/o

fiber

fissure

deep crack

gangrene

bacterial disease causing necrosis of tissue

gen; geno; genet

birth (dealing with inheritance)

glabr

smooth

graft

transfer of tissue from one place to another

gran

grain

hem; hemo; hemat; hemato

blood

hidr; hidra; hidro

sweat

hist/o

tissue

ichthy

fish

impetigo

skin eruption

incision

cut

jaun

the color yellow

kel

claw

kerat/o

horn

leuk/o

the color white

lip/o

fat

lith

stone

lun

moon

macer

soften

melan/o

the color black

myc/o

fungus

myring/o

eardrum

necr

dead

nevus

mole

nidus

nest

nod[e]

knot

onych/o

nail; “little claw”

ops

seeing; appearance

pachy

thick

pap; papilla

nipple

permeable

able to be penetrated

petechia

small, red spots on the skin

pheo

gray or dark in color

pigment

coloring agent

pil/o

hair

plaque

sticky deposit

plas[tic]

something molded

prur[is]

itch

pruritic

something which causes an itch

psōra

itch

py/o

pus

ras

scrape

regulat[e]

control or maintain

rhino

nose

rhytid/o

wrinkle

rub

red

scale

scale

scess

going

scler/o

hard

seb; seba; sebo; sebum

a waxy secretion from a skin gland

sens

sensation; perception

septic

filled with microorganisms

sicc

dry

some

body

squam

a shape wider than it is high (literally, “fish scale”)

steat/o

fatty

suction

using negative pressure

surgery

using tools to alter the structure of the body

sweat

perspiration

tect

roof

therapy

treatment to make something better

thermo

temperature