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Chapter 16: Skin Flashcards

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Adip/o

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Fat

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Albin/o

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white

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Caus/o

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burn, burning

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Cauter/o

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heat, burn

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Cutane/o

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skin

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Derm/o

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skin

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Dermat/o

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skin

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Diaphor/o

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profuse sweating

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Erythem/o

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redness

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Erythemat/o

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redness

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Hidr/o

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sweat

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Hydr/o

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water

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Ichthy/o

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dry, scaly (fish like)

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Kerat/o

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hard

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Leuk/o

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white

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Lip/o

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fat

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Melan/o

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black

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Myc/o

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fungus

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Onych/o

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nail

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Phyt/o

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plant

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Pil/o

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hair, hair follicle

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Py/o

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pus

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Rhytid/o

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wrinkle

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Seb/o

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sebum (oily secretion from sebaceous glands)

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Sebace/o

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sebum

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Squam/o

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scale-like

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Steat/o

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fat

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Trich/o

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hair

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Ungu/o

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nail

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Xanth/o

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yellow

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Xer/o

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dry

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-algia

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pain

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-derma

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skin

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-esis

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action, condition, state of

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-lysis

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breakdown

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-ose

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pertaining to full of

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-osis

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condition, usually abnormal condition

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-ous

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pertaining to

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-plakia

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plaque

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-plasty

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surgical repair

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-rrhea

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flow, discharge

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Crust

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collection of dried serum and cellular debris

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Cyst

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thick walled, closed sac or pouch containing fluid or semi-solid material

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Erosion

HINT:condition pertaining to the skin

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wearing away or loss of epidermis

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Fissure

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groove or crack-like sore

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Macule

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Flat lesion measuring less than 1cm in diameter

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Nodule

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Solid, round or oval elevated lesion 1 cm or more in diameter

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Papule

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Small (less that 1cm) solid elevation of the skin

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Polyp

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Growth extending from the surface of mucous membrane

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Pustule

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Papule containing pus

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Ulcer

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Open sore on the skin or mucous membranes

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Vesicle

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Small collection (papule) of clear fluid (serum); blister

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Wheal

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Smooth edematous (swollen) papule or plaque that is redder or paler than surrounding skin.

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