basic terminology for chapt 18
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| Aden/o | Gland
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| Adenectomy | Removal of a gland
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| Adren/o Adrenal/o | adrenal gland
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| Adrenopathy | Disease of the Adrenal gland
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| Adrenalectomy | Removal of an adrenal gland
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| Gonad/o | sex glands (ovaries and testes)
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| Gonadotropin | to act on (stimulate) the sex glands
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| Hypogonadism | condition of deficient sex glands
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| Pancreat/o | pancreas
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| Pancreatectomy | removal of the pancreas
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| parathyroid/o | parathyroid gland
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| Parathyroidectomy | removal of the parathyroid gland
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| Hypopituitarism | condition of deficient pituitary glands
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| thyr/o thyroid/o | thyroid gland
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| thyrotropic hormone | pertaining to stimulating the thyroid gland
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| thyroiditis | inflammation of the thyroid gland
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| Andr/o | male
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| Androgen | a substance that males produce
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| calc/o calci/o | calcium
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| hypercalcemia | excessive calcium in the blood
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| hypocalcemia | deficient calcium in the blood
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| hypercalciuria | excessive calcium in the urine
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| Cortic/o | cortex, outer region
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| corticosteroid | resembling the outer solid structure
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| crin/o | secrete
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| endocrinologist | specialist of the endocrine (secrete within) system
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| dips/o | thirst
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| polydipsia | much thirst
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| estr/o | female
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| estrogenic | pertaining to a substance that a female produces
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| gluc/o | sugar
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| glucagon | assemble sugar
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| glyc/o | sugar
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| hyperglycemia | condition of excesive sugar in the blood
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| glycemic | pertaining to sugar in the blood
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| glycogen | substance that produces sugar
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| home/o | sameness
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| homeostasis | to control sameness
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| hormone/o | hormone
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| hormonal | pertaining to hormone
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| kal/i | potassium
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| hypokalemia | deficient potassium in the blood
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| lact/o | milk
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| prolactin | a substance before milk
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| myx/o | mucus
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| myxedema | mucus like material accumulates under the skin, swelling of mucus
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| Natr/o | sodium
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| hyponatremia | deficient sodium in the blood
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| phys/o | growing
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| hypophysectomy | removal of a defiant growing
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| somat/o | body
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| somatotropin | to act on the body
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| ster/o | solid structure
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| steroid | resembling a solid structure
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| toc/o | childbirth
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| oxytocin | rapid childbirth
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| toxic/o | poison
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| thryrotoxicosis | pertaining to poison of the thyroid gland
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| ur/o | urine
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| antidiuretic hormone | pertaining to against urine
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| agon | assemble, gather together
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| glucagon | assemble sugar
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| emia | blood condition
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| in, ine | a substance
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| epinephrine | a substance above the kidney
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| tropin | stimulating the function of
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| Adrenocorticotropin | stimulating the outer region of the adrenal gland
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| uria | urine condition
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| glycosuria | sugar in the urine
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| eu | good, normal
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| euthyroid | normal thyroid
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| hyper | excessive
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| hyperkalemia | excessive potassium in the blood
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| hypo | deficient
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| hypoinsulinism | deficient secretion of insulin
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| oxy | rapid, sharp, acid
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| oxytocin | rapid childbirth
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| pan | all
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| panhypopituitarism | condition of deficiency in all the pituitary glands
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| tetra | four
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| tetraiodothyronine | a substance of 4 iodine and thyroid
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| tri | three
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| triiodthyronine | a substance of 3 iodine and thyroid
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| iod/o | iodine
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