Chapter 5 - Integumentary System Flashcards
Acanth/o
Thorny, spiny
Adip/o
Fat
Aesthesi/o
Sensation, feeling
Albin/o
White
Caus/o
Burn, burning
Cauter/o
Heat, burn
Cutane/o
Skin
Derm/o
Demat/o
Skin
Diaphor/o
Profuse sweating
Epitheli/o
Epithelium
Erythem/o
Erythemat/o
Red
Hidr/o
Sweat
Hist/o
Histi/o
Tissue
Ichthy/o
Scaly, dry
Kerat/o
Hard, horny tissue, cornea
Leuc/o
Leuk/o (only used for leukaemia)
White
Lip/o
Fat
Melan/o
Black
Myc/o
Fungus, mould
Onych/o
Nail
Pil/o
Resembling or composed of hair
Scler/o
Hardening, sclera
Seb/o
Sebace/o
Sebum
Squam/o
Scale
Stear/o
Steat/o
Fat
Trich/i
Trich/o
Hair
Ungu/o
Nail
Xanth/o
Yellow
Xer/o
Dry
Epi-
Above, upon, on
Intra-
Within, inside
Pachy-
Thick
Par-
Near, aside, apart from, other than, beyond, against
Sub-
Under, below
-derma
Skin
-lemma
Confining membrane, sheath
-oma
Tumour
-plakia
Condition of plaques
-plasty
Surgical or plastic repair
-rrhoea
Discharge, flow
-trophy
Nourishment, development
-tropic
Affinity for