root words
albin/o
white
-ism
state of
allo-
other
hem/o
blood
-plasty
surgical repair
bi/o
life
cutaneous
pertaining to the skin
skin
-osis
abnormal condition
de-
without
-itis
inflammation
-ous
pertaining to
auto-
self
dermal
pertaining to the skin
light
photo/o
-ule
small
intra-
within
-phagia
eating
hidr/o
sweat
py/o
pus
epidermal
pertaining to upon the skin
cutane/o
skin
-ic
an-
without
esthesi/o
feeling
-rrhea
discharge
hypo-
under, less than, low
hypodermic
pertaining to under the skin
scaly, dry
ichthy/o
-opsy
to view
epi-
upon
scler/o
hard
-oma
mass
sarc/o
flesh
intradermal
pertaining to within the skin
hard
kerat/o
-tome
instrument used to cut
para-
beside
pedicul/o
lice
cyt/o
cell
cry/o
cold
subcutaneous
pertaining to under the skin
leuk/o
white
-ia
state or condition
anti-
against
trich/o
hair
ungu/o
nail
cyan/o
blue
ungual
pertaining to the nails
necr/o
death
-emia
blood condition
hyper-
excessive, more than, above, high
xer/o
dry
myc/o
fungus
angi/o
vessel
cyanosis
abnormal condition of blue
seb/o
oil
-ectomy
surgical removal
sub-
under
melan/o
black
carcin/o
cancer
erythr/o
red
anhidrosis
abnormal condition of without sweat
vesic/o
bladder
-malacia
softening
xeno-
strange, foreign
rhytid/o
wrinkle
cis/o
cut
diaphor/o
profuse sweating
red skin condition