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Terms and Definitions Ch. 16

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ADDISON'S DISEASE Condition resulting in a decrease in adrenocotical hormones, such as mineralocorticoids and gluccorticoids, that causes symptoms including muscle weakness and weight loss.
AUTOCRINE Denoting a mode of hormone action in which a hormone binds to receptors on and the function of the cell type that produced it.
AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE Condition in which a person's tissues are attacked by his or her immune system; abnormal antigen-antibody reaction.
CRETINISM Condition in which the development of the brain and body is inhibited by congenital lack of thyroid secretion.
CUSHING'S DISEASE Syndrome causing an increase in secretion of the adrenal cortex that includes symptoms such as a moon face and deposits of fat (buffalo hump).
EXOPHTHALMUS Prominence of the eyeball caused by increased thyroid hormone.
GLUCOSE Simple sugar.
GOITER Condition in which the thyroid gland is enlarged because of a lack of iodine, known as simple goiter, or because of a tumor, known as toxic goiter.
GRAVES' DISEASE Condition caused by hypersecretion of thyroid with diffuse goiter, exophalmus, and skin changes.
HOMEOSTASIS The equilibrium pertaining to the balance of the body with respect to fluid levels, pH level, and chemicals.
HORMONES Chemical sustances produced and secreted by an endocrine duct into the bloodstream or duct that result ina physiological response at a specific target tissue.
HYPERCALCEMIA Usually high concentration of calcium in the blood.
HYPOCALCEMIA Low concentration of the calcium in the blood.
HYPERGLYCEMIA Abnormally high glucose content circulating in the bloodstream.
HYPOGLYCEMIA Abnormally low glucose content circulating in the bloodstream.
MYXEDEMA Condition associated with a decrease in overall thyroid function in adults; also known as hyperthyroidism.
NEUROBLASTOMAS Tumors of the neural crest; neruoblastomas often consist of cells morphologically.
NIDDM Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
OSTEOPOROSIS Condition associted with the decrease of bone mass and softening of bones, resulting in the increased possiblility of bone fractures.
PAGET'S DISEASE Condition that affects older adults in which the density of the bones decrease, resulting in the softening and weakening.
PARACRINE Denoting a type of hormone funtions in which hormone synthesized in and release from endocrine cells bind to its receptor.
PHEONCHROMOCYTOMAS Tumors of the adrenal gland that produce excess adrenaline.
PTH Parathyroid hormone.
SIMMOND'S DISEASE A pituitary disorder that is a form of hypopituitarism in which all pituitary secretions are deficient.
SPERMATOGENOSIS The prrocess of producing sperm with half the number of chromosomes.
THROXINE Known as T4; contains four ions of iodine.
TRIIODOTHYRONINE Known as T3; contains three ions of iodine.
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