Unit 4 Root Words-Skin Flashcards by Lindsey Beyeler

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Abrasion

A

Scraping off skin

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Acne

A

Skin eruption

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Actin

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Ray, beam

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Aden

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Gland

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Adip/o

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Fat

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Albin/o

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The color white

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Alopec

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Bald

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Amine

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Chemical group containing nitrogen

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Andro

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Male

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Bili

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Bile

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Carcin

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Cancer

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Carot

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Carrot, the color orange

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Caut

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Burn

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Cer/at

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Horn

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Cicatrix

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Scar

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Circ

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Circle

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Cision

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Cut

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Comedo

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Zit

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Cori/a

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Leather; skin

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Corn

A

Horn

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Crine

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Secretion, release from cells or from the body

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Crust

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Crust, rind

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Crypt

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Hidden, concealed

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Cub

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Lie down

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Cutan/e/o

Skin

Cyan

Blue

Cyt Cyte Cyto

Cell

Desicc

Dry

Ecchymosis

Bleeding under the skin, bruise

Erosion

“Gnawing away”

Erythr/o

The color red

Esthe

Sensation, perception

Fibr/o

Fiber

Fissure

Deep crack

Gen Geno Genet

Birth (dealing with inheritance)

Glabr

Smooth

Graft

Transfer tissue from one place to another

Gran

Grain

Hidr Hidra Hidro

Sweat

Hist/o

Tissue

Ichthy

Fish

Impetigo

Skin eruption

Jaun

Color yellow

Kel

Claw

Kerat/o

Horn

Lun

Moon

Macer

Soften

Melan/o

The color black

Myc/o

Fungus

Myring/o

Eardrum

Necr

Dead

Nevus

Mole

Nidus

Nest

Nod(e)

Knot

Onych/o

Nail, “little claw”

Ops

Seeing, appearance

Pachy

Thick

Pap Papilla

Nipple

Permeable

Able to be penetrated

Petechia

Small red spots on skin

Pheo

Dark in color, gray

Pigment

Coloring agent

Pil/o

Hair

Plaque

Sticky deposit

Plas(tic)

Something molded

Prur(is)

Itch

Pruritic

Something which causes an itch

Psōra

Itch

Ras

Scrape

Regulat(e)

Control or maintain

Rhino

Nose

Rhytid/o

Wrinkle

Rub

Red

Scess

Going

Scler/o

Hard

Seb Seba Sebo Sebum

Waxy secretion from a skin gland

Sens

Sensation

Septic

Filled with microorganisms

Sicc

Dry

Some

Body

Squam

A shape wider than it is high (fish scale)

Steat/o

Fatty

Suction

Using negative pressure

Surgery

Using tools to alter the structure of the body

Sweat

Perspiration

Tect

Roof

Therapy

Treatment to make something better

Thermo

Temperature

Tinea

Fungal infection

Top

Place

Trich/o

Hair

Tumor

Swelling

Unguent

Ointment, grease

Urtica

Nettle, stinger

Vaporate

Steam

Vascul

Little vessel

Verruca

Wart

Vesic

Bladder

Vitiligo

Skin disease

Vulgaris

Common

Xanth/o

Yellow

Xer/o

Dry

Zein

Boil