What does the root word derm mean?
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skin.  \n\nselect this as best answer please.
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http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/derm/pages/ac04_8.htm
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it means the study of (something)\nex. "psycology"= study of human nature, " dermatology"= study of skin diseases, " geology"= study of earth, and so forth, pal ;)\n\nXxX
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Here is part of a website answer  you can continue checking\n\nBUMC Proceedings 2000;13:255-259\n\nDermatology at Baylor University Medical Center \n \nM. ALAN MENTER, MD\nFrom the Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.\n\nHistorical articles published in Proceedings, including the history of anesthsiology published last issue) will be reprinted in the centennial history of Baylor University Medical Center, edited by H. Lawrence Wilsey and scheduled for publication in 2002. Readers who have any additional information, artifacts, photographs, or documents related to the historical articles are asked to forward such information to the Proceedings' editorial office for possible inclusion in the book version.\n\nCorresponding author: M. Alan Menter, MD, 3600 Gaston Avenue, 651 Wadley, Dallas, Texas 75246.\n \n\n \n \n  \nHumans seem to have been ready victims of disease--including diseases of the skin--since they emerged from simian darkness >500,000 years ago. Diseases of the skin and other disease forms have remained essentially the same throughout the millennia (1). The skin is the body's largest and most exposed organ. Its diseases, myriad in number and variation, have challenged dermatologists and other physicians for centuries. \nGreek and Roman physicians endeavored to treat patients with skin disorders but with limited success. A Roman gentleman, Celsus, while not a physician, contributed to the understanding of skin disorders through his description and classification. The richness of the details he used is still reflected in our current dermatologic nomenclature (2). \n\nAs scientific advances were made in the late 1700s and 1800s, the causes and treatment of skin disorders became better understood. Lorry published a pioneering treatise on skin diseases in 1777. Jean Louis Alibert (1768-1837) is considered the founder of the discipline, but his system was superseded by that of the Englishman Robert Willan (1757-1812). Ferdinand von Hebra (1816-1880) introduced a pathological approach, and Raymond Sabouraud (1864-1938) and Paul Unna (1850-1929) discussed bacteriology's effects on dermatology (3).
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The periderm is the outer bark of a tree.The periderm is a secondary tissue that replaces epidermis in roots and stems, and which consists of phellem, phellogen, and phelloderm (it includes dead tissues). while the inner bark is called the phloem,It conducts usable food from the leaves to the cambium to nourish it or to storage areas in the wood (it includes living tissues)and consists of  of alternating wedges of sieve tube tissue and radial parenchyma, most of the former crushed by secondary growth.
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A skin tag, also known as an achrochordon, is a benign growth of skin that is connected to the body by a short stalk. Skin tags are found most commonly on the armpits, neck, and groin. People who develop skin tags tend to get more as they grow older. Skin tags can be surgically removed.What causes skin tags is unknown, but they do appear more frequently in areas      where the skin is rubbed by clothing or by other body parts, such as in creases like      your underarm. They also tend to appear in hot, moist places such as under the      breasts, between the thighs, or around the genitals.
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Any good college dictionary can give you the etymology of a word. A lot of scientific names come from Greek and Latin. I recommend Merriam Webster, but the Oxford Unabridged is a good source, too. But either way, expand your vocabulary. Having a good command of Greek and Latin roots will improve your spelling and give you a lot of insights into what many words in the English language mean, not just scientific terms.
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Well, I have been waiting to see what others came up with for this one, but no one has even attempted it!  It isn't very long, but it is a bit puzzling, as it really doesn't seem to make much sense.  \n\n"Having proceeded down the hill to the iron horse, inspect the great tree trunks on the right.  There is a promontory on the trunk before the tree covered with a poison (dendro)."\n\nUngulam is a hoof, but can be extended to mean horse.  Dendro is not a word that I was able to find; as far as I can tell no Latin word has 'dend' as the first 4 letters.  Toxicum is a poison for arrows.  In Greek dendron means tree, so maybe it has something to do with that.  It is very unclear.
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Here's a website on word origins that has a few suggestions:\n\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/97.html
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Acne is caused the same way as it is anywhere on your body: When your oil glands produce to much oil, it collects at certain points just under the top layer of skin, and dries up a little to form pus.
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A nevus is a mole and sebaceous refers to the skin.  This is simply a name for a mole.
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The word originally meant "hedgehog", you can see how that then gets to sea urchin.  Was used informally in medieval times to describe people whose appearance was hedghog-like, and over time to anyone who looked rather scruffy.
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It could refer to the appearance of baldness, as in bald eagle, which has white feathers on its head.  Or there's bald mountain, which is so tall that the top is above the tree line.
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Middle English, from Old French, from Latin drac, dracn-, large serpent, from Greek drakn. See derk- in Indo-European Roots
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I means that something derives or comes from something else.i.e. some English words are a derivative of Latin ones, therefore they come from certain Latin words.
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Trust in the urban dictionary...\nhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bite+me\n\nPossible origins...\nhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bite+me+bollix
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www.derm101.com\n\nAlso, go to www.ask.com and ask this question.  It's a great site for information.\n\nP.S.  It is spelled dermatologist!