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Week 4 PhM term
week 4 phm terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Addison's Disease | disorder caused by a decrease of adrenocortical hormones |
| Antinuclear antibody | abnormal antibody that attacks the nucleus of normal cells in the body |
| ataxia | condition that causes the muscles to fail to function in a coordinated manner |
| autoantibody | abnormal antibody that attacks healthy cells and tissue |
| autocrine | denoting a mode of hormone action in which a hormone binds to receptors and affects the function of the cell type that produced it |
| autoimmine disease | condition in which a persons tissues are attacked by his or her immune system |
| bone mineral density | measurement that is taken to determine the degree of bone loss |
| catecholamines | hormones made in the brainstem, nervous system and adrenal glands |
| calcitonin | thyroid hormone that helps regulate blood concentrations of calcium and phosphate |
| Cretinism | condition in which the development of the brain and body is inhibited by congenital lack of thyroid secretion |
| Cushings Disease | sydnrome caused by excessive production of adrenocoticotropic hormone |
| dermatomyositis | form of myositis that affects muscles and the skin |
| demyelination | damage caused by recurrent inflammation of myelin that results in nervous system scars that interrupt commincation between the nerves and the rest of the body |
| diabetes mellitus | chronic condition in which the body is unable to properly convert food into energy |
| exophthalmos | prominence of the eyeball caused by increased thyroid hormone |
| glucose | simple sugar |
| goiter | condition in which the thyroid gland is enlarges because of lack of ioidine, know as simple goiter or because of a tumor, know as toxic goiter |
| homeostasis | the equilibrium pertaining to the balance of the body with respect to fluid levels, ph levels and chemicals |
| hormones | chemical substances produced and secreted by an endorcrine duct into the bloodstream or duct that results in a physiological response at a specific target tissue |
| interferons | anitiviral protiens that enhance t-cell recognition of antigens and produce immune system suppression |
| ayasthenia gravis | autoimmine disease in which the immune system |
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