Medical Terminology / Unit 5 MedTerm 0275 short lesson, about 20 seconds
xer/o: Dry
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The idea
The combining form xer slash o names dryness.
In practice
Xeroderma is abnormally dry skin.
Where people slip
The x at the start of xer is spoken as a z sound.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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