Chapter 3 - Combining Forms Flashcards
1
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aden/o
A
gland
2
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adip/o
A
fat
3
Q
albin/o
A
white
4
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aut/o
A
self
5
Q
bi/o
A
life
6
Q
blephar/o
A
eyelid
7
Q
carcin/o
A
cancer
8
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caus/o
A
burn; burning; heat
9
Q
cauter/o
A
heat; burn
10
Q
chrom/o
A
color
11
Q
cis/o
A
to cut
12
Q
cry/o
A
cold
13
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crypt/o
A
hidden
14
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cutane/o
A
skin
15
Q
cyan/o
A
blue
16
Q
cyt/o
A
cell
17
Q
derm/a; dermat/o; derm/o
A
skin
18
Q
diaphor/o
A
profuse sweating
19
Q
ecchym/o
A
blood in the tissues
20
Q
erythem/o; erthemat/o
A
redness
21
Q
erythr/o
A
red
22
Q
hidr/o
A
sweat
23
Q
hist/o
A
tissue
24
Q
ichthy/o
A
dry; scaly
25
immun/o
immune; protection
26
integument/o
covering
27
jaund/o
yellow
28
kerat/o
hard, horn-shaped tissue
29
lip/o
fat
30
melan/o
black
31
myc/o
fungus
32
necr/o
death
33
onych/o
nail
34
papill/o
nipple-like
35
pil/o
hair; hair follicle
36
prurit/o
itching
37
psor/o
itching
38
py/o
pus
39
rhytid/o
wrinkle
40
scler/o
hardening
41
seb/o
sebum (oily secretion from sebaceous glands)
42
squam/o
scale
43
steat/o
fat; sebum
44
therm/o
hot; heat
45
trich/o
hair
46
ungu/o
nail
47
xanth/o
yellow; yellowish
48
xen/o
foreign; unlike species
49
xer/o
dry
