VTA 115 Terms of the Integumentary System

Match each prefix or suffix of the Integumentary System with its correct definition.

• above, upper

• -grade

• view of

• -cyte

• to produce

• -opsy

• cell

• -gen

• to go

• Epi-

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• growth

• -um

• tumor

• -plasia

• study of

• -oma

• disease produced by

• -iasis

• structure

• -logy

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• to produce

• -iasis

• outside

• endo-

• nutrition, growth

• exo-

• disease produced by

• -trophy

• inside

• -gen

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• skin

• Hist/o

• keratin

• Kerat/o

• pigment, dark

• Cyt/o

• cell

• Melan/o

• tissue

• Cutane/o

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• oily substance

• Adip/o

• fat

• Seb/o

• sweat

• Derm/o

• skin

• Aden/o

• gland

• Hidr/o

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• hoof

• Pil/i

• hair

• Onych/o

• fat

• Ungul/o

• nail or claw

• Lip/o

• skin

• Dermat/o

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• hole, opening

• Pil/o

• cancer

• Carcin/o

• hair

• Erythr/o

• plant, fungus

• Phyt/o

• red

• Fistul/o

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• flesh

• Sarc/o

• pus

• Erythem/o

• red

• Py/o

• hair

• Papill/o

• wart, lobed growth

• Trich/o

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• red

• Py/o

• hair

• Erythemat/o

• pus

• Trich/o

• wart, lobed growth

• Alopec/o

• hair loss

• Papill/i

The absence of normal pigmentation

• Collagen

• Biopsy

• Albinism

• Skin Scrape