Chapter 4 terms Flashcards
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
cis/o
to cut
cry/o
cold
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
integumemt/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
pappil/o
nipple-like
pil/o
hair follicle
prurit/o
itching
psor/o
itching
py/o
pus
rhytid/o
wrinkle
scler/o
hardening
seb/o
sebum (oily secretion from sebaceous glands)
squam/o
scale
steat/o
fat; sebum
trich/o
hair
ungu/o
nail
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-
in; into; 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
-iasis
abnormal condition
-ion
process; state; condition
-ism
process; condition
-itis
inflammation
-logy
study of
-oma
tumor; mass
-opsy
view of; viewing
-ose
full of; pertaining to; sugar
-osis
abnormal condition
-plasty
surgical repair
-rrhea
flow; excessive discharge
-therapy
treatment