Skin Layers
This is the name for the outer most layer of the skin.
What is the Epidermis?
What is an Abrasion?
This is the removal of tissue and foreign material to aid healing.
What is Debridement?
These is the combining forms for skin. (Give me 2.)
What are cutane/o and derm/o?
This is the common name for the medical term "Scale".
What is Flake?
This is the name of the black pigment that protects the skin from harmful rays of the sun.
What is Melanin?
This is a localized collection of pus.
What is an Abscess?
This word means to open or pierce with a lancet (scalpel blade) to allow drainage.
What is Lance?
The prefix epi- means this.
What is Above?
This is the common term for the medical term for inflammatory product made up of leukocytes, cell debris, and fluid.
What is Pus?
This layer contains a large amount of fat, or lipid. Also known as the hypodermis.
What is the subcutaneous layer?
These are insect larvae found in dead or decaying tissue.
What are Maggots?
This is the destruction of tissue using electric current, heat, or chemicals.
What is Cauterization?
This combining form means black or dark.
What is melan/o?
This is the common name for the medical term "sebum".
What is Oil?
This layer of the skin is composed of blood and lymph vessels, nerve fibers, and the accessory organs of the skin.
What is the Dermis?
This is the word for hair loss resulting in hairless patches or complete lack of hair.
What is Alopecia?
This is a device that transfers light into an intense beam for various purposes, such as helping in healing and reducing inflammation.
This combining form means sebum or oily substance.
What is Seb/o?
This is the common name for the medical term acute moist dermatitis.
What is Hot Spot?
This is the study of skin.
What is Dermatology?
This is a benign growth of fat cells. Also called a fatty tumor.
What is a Lipoma?
This surgery uses extreme cold to cause destruction of tissue.
What is Cryosurgery?
This is the combining form for fat.
What is Adip/o?
This is the common phrase for the medical term "atopy'.
What is Allergic Dermatitis?