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Medical Terminology Chapter 4 Combining Forms

  1. Abras/o
    to rub away
  2. aden/o
    gland
  3. aut/o
    self
  4. bi/o
    life

    Prefix means two
  5. carcin/o
    cancer
  6. crypt/o
    hidden
  7. cutane/o
    skin
  8. derm/o
    dermat/o
    skin
  9. elast/o
    change shape
  10. eryth/o
    erythr/o
    red
  11. fibr/o
    fiber
  12. heter/o
    other
  13. hidro/o
    sweat
  14. kerat/o
    • hard
    • horny tissue
  15. lei/o
    smooth
  16. leuk/o
    white
  17. melan/o
    • dark
    • black
  18. myc/o
    fungus
  19. necr/o
    death
  20. onycho/o
    nail
  21. pachy/o
    thick
  22. rhytid/o
    wrinkle
  23. sarc/o
    • flesh
    • meath
  24. scler/o
    • thick
    • hard
    • sclera
  25. seb/o
    sebum (oil)
  26. xer/o
    dry
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Medical Terminology Chapter 4 Combining Forms
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Chapter 4 Integumentary System Teminology
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