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Prairie nrs 102/u10
diabetes vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ascites | Excess fluid in the peritoneal cavity |
| Asterixis | Abnormal muscle tremor consisting of involuntary jerking movements |
| Cirrhosis | A progressive irreversible disorder, eventually leading to liver failure, the end stage of chronic liver disease |
| Dawn phenomenon | A rise in glucose between 4 A.M. and 8 A.M. that is not a response to hypoglycemia |
| Encephalopathy | Generalized brain dysfunction marked by varying degrees of impairment of speech, cognition, orientation, and arousal |
| Esophageal varices | Enlarged thin |
| Hematemesis | Blood in vomit |
| Hepatitis | Inflammation of the liver, usually caused by a virus, may be acute or chronic |
| Hyperglycemia | Elevated blood glucose levels (above 16 mg/dl) which causes osmotic diuresis and if chronic, damages vessel epithelium and renal glomeruli |
| Hypoglycemia | Low blood glucose levels, deficiency of blood sugar |
| IDDM | Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus |
| Insulin | A hormone that facilitates entry of glucose into fat and muscle cells for energy |
| Jaundice | Yellow discoloration of the skin, mucous membrane, and sclera, caused by greater than normal amount of bilirubin in the blood |
| Ketoacidosis | A condition of very high blood glucose and insufficient insulin that results in accumulation of ketones and fatty acids in the blood and urine and diuresis |
| Lipodystrophy | Disturbance of fat metabolism. Common findings include localized accumulation of fat under the skin and on the trunk, or fatty atrophy |
| Nephropathy | Disease of the kidney. It includes inflammatory (nephritis), degenerative (nephrosis), and sclerotic lesion of the kidney |
| Neuropathy | Damage to peripheral nerves causing hyper or hyposensation and leading to pain and injury |
| NIDDM | Non Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, the former abbreviation for the disease now known as Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| Obstruction | Blockage of a structure that prevents it fro functioning normally |
| Paracentesis | Aspiration of fluid from the peritoneal cavity |
| Portal hypertension | Elevated pressure in the portal venous system that causes rerouting of blood to adjoining lower pressure vessels |
| Retinopathy | Any non inflammatory retinal damage or disease |
| Somogyl effect (phenomenon?) | In Diabetes mellitus, rebound hyperglycemia following an episode of hypoglycemia caused by counter regulatory hormone release |
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