Integ Syst Prefixes
Hyper-
What is excessive or high?
-ectomy
What is an surgical removal?
Melan/o
What is black?
schler/o
What is hard or hardening?
Hyperhidrosis
What is abnormal condition of excessive sweating?
What is within?
-cyte
What is a cell?
Seb/o
What is oil?
onych/o
What is nail?
Subcutaneous
What is below the skin?
Anti-
What is against?
-osis
What is abnormal condition?
pil/o, trich/o
What is hair?
hem/o
What is blood?
Pyoderma
What is pus in the layers of skin/infection?
Auto-
What is self?
-phagia
What is eating or to eat?
myc/o
What is fungus?
cyan/o
What is blue?
Lipoma
What is a fat mass or tumor?
Epi-
What is Upon or Above?
-oma
What is mass or tumor?
erythr/o
What is red?
ichthy/o
What is scaly and dry?
Erythroderma
What is redness of the skin?