Medical Terminology

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Medical Terminology

• Skin
• Lesson 16

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• This chapter will discuss the medical terms
  related to the skin, accessory structures of the
  skin, conditions related to dermatology, and
  procedures that pertain to the skin.

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Adip/o Albin/o
Cutane/o Derm/o Dermat/o
fat white
skin
burn, burning heat, burn
sweat redness, flushed
Caus/o Cauter/o
Diaphor/o Erythem/o Erythemat/o
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Hidr/o Ichthy/o
Lip/o Melan/o
sweat dry, scaly
fat, lipid black
horny, hard white
fungus nail
Kerat/o Leuk/o
Myc/o Onych/o
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Phyt/o Pil/o
Squam/o Steat/o Trich/o
plant hair
scale fat, sebum hair
wrinkle sebum
nail yellow dry
Rhytid/o Seb/o Sebace/o
Ungu/o Xanth/o Xer/o
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Suffixes -derma -esis

skin condition
-plakia Prefixes oxy- pheo-
plaque fast, rapid dark


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PRACTICE
1 adipose
Full of fat
State of white
2 albinism
To heat or burn with electricity
3 electrocautery
Pertaining to below the skin
4 subcutaneous
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PRACTICE
5 epidermis
On top of the dermis
Inflammation of the skin
6 dermatitis
Surgical repair of the skin
7 dermatoplasty
Separation of the epidermis (and the dermis,
results in blisters)
8 epidermolysis
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PRACTICE
9 diaphoresis
Condition of profuse (complete) sweating
Condition of redness
10 erythema
Abnormal condition of without sweating
11 anhidrosis
Abnormal condition of scaly, dry (fish-like)
12 ichthyosis
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PRACTICE
13 ketatosis
Abnormal condition of hard, horny tissue
White plaque
14 leukoplakia
Black cells
15 melanocyte
Tumor of black cells
16 melanoma
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PRACTICE
17 dermatomycosis
Abnormal condition of fungus in the skin
Separation of the nail (bed)
18 onycholysis
Condition of near the nails (inflammation of
tissue around the nail)
19 paronychia
Abnormal condition of plant (fungus) in the skin
20 dermatophytosis
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PRACTICE
21 pilosebaceous
Pertaining to hair follicle secreting oil
Surgical removal of wrinkles
22 rhytidectomy
Discharge of sebum (oil)
23 seborrhea
Pertaining to scale-like cells (flat)
24 squamous
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PRACTICE
Abnormal condition of fungus in the hair
25 trichomycosis
Pertaining to below the nail
26 subungual
Tumor of yellow fat deposits
27 xanthoma
Dry skin
28 xeroderma
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