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A&P Chap 11&15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hodgkins Disease | cancer of lymph nodes |
| Hodgkins treatment | chemo or radiation |
| why are tonsils no longer removed as frequently? | they act as filters; needed to filter out infection |
| Opportunistic Infections | Conditions that AIDS patients are susceptable to as the disease progresses; life threatening |
| Severe allergic reaction | Anaphalaxis Shock |
| Organ affected by infectious mono | Liver |
| Substance that diffuses from the capillaries into the tissue | Lymph |
| Lymph vessels are located | parallel to veins, in almost all tissues and organs in the body |
| HIV transmission | Sex, needles, in utero, at birth |
| Graves disease | hyperactive thyroid disease; bulging eyes |
| cushings | hypersecretion of the glucocorticoid hormone; moon face, buffalo hump |
| addisons | hyperfunctioning of adrenal cortex; extreme pigmentation, bronzing |
| diabetus mellitus | decretion of the ssecretion of insulin |
| steroid abuse | use of androgenic anabolic steroids; build bulk or mass |
| follicle stimulating hormone | pituitary anterior |
| antidiuretic hormone | pituitary posterior |
| thyroxine | T4 of thyroid |
| parathormone | parathyroid |
| epinephrine | adrenal medulla |
| androgens | adrenal cortex |
| glucagon | pancreas |
| thymosin | thymus |
| estrogen | gonad ovaries |
| testosterone | gonad testes |
| polyuria | excessive urination |
| polydipsia | excessive thirst |
| polyphagia | excessive hunger |
| what hormone controls rate of metabolism, heat production, oxid. of cells | thyroxine |
| autoimmunity | actions of immunity agaist ones own self |
| inflammation and swelling of a lymph node | lymphadenitis |
| secretions of the adrenals | mineralcorticoids, glucocorticoids, gonadocorticoids |
| primary function of adrenal | controls electrical activity |
| patient has high blood calcium level, which gland is causing this | parathyroid |
| cortisone and cortisol are examples of | glucocorticoids |
| islets of langerhans | in the pancreas, secretes insulin, a cells-produce glucagon, b cells produce insulin |
| alpha cells | produce glucagon, in islets of langerhans |
| beta cells | produce insulin, in islets of langerhans |
| functions of lymphatic system | fat transport, remove & destroy toxins, disease resistant, produce lymphocytes, develops immunity, returns lymph fluid to bloodstream |
| endocrine gland both exocrine and endocrine | pancreas |
| lymph color | straw |
| duct glands are | exocrine |
| natural immunity | born with it |
| passive acquired | baby gets from mom |
| natural acquired | disease built immunity (chicken pox) |
| artificial acquired | vaccines |
| unbroken skin and mucus are examples of | natural immunity |
| the aging adult, the pituitary gland | shrinks |
| ADH | holds onto water, vasopressin |
| oxytocin | released during childbirth; causes contractions |
| thyroxine | controls metabolism, heat production, oxid. of cells |
| calcitonin | lowers calcium |
| parathormone | raises calcium |
| thymosin | immune system; production of t cells (cancer) |
| body's ability to resist pathogens | immunity |
| hormone secreted by pineal gland | melatonin |
| gland located at base of brain | pituitary |
| hodgkins disease | cancer of lymph nodes; chemo or radiation |
| causes increased susceptibility to infections and slower healing in older adults | diabetes |
| growth hormone | growth and development |
| TSH | stimulates the growth and development of the thyroid gland |
| ACTH | stimulates the growth and development of the adrenal cortex |
| FSH | stimulates the growth of the graafian follicle and the production of estrogen; sperm in males |
| LH | growth of the graafian follicle and the production of estrogen; formation of the corpus luteum; progesterone |
| prolactin | milk production |
| type of immunity a person is born with | natural |
| aldosterone | mineralcorticoid hormone of the adrenal cortex; sodium/potassium |
| sleep/wake cycles | melatonin |
| hyperfunction of the pituitary | gigantism |
| adrenalin is | epinephrine produced in the adrenal medulla; cardiac stimulant |
| anterior pituitary secretes | GH, TSH, PLH, ACTH, FSH, LH, ICSH |
| serious, usually fatal, disease caused by supression of the immune system | AIDS/HIV |
| serious allergic reaction | anaphalaxis shock |
| cancer of the lymph nodes | hodgkins |
| failure of the immune system to protect itself against foreign substances | hypersensitivity |
| infectious disease caused by the Epstein-Barr virus | mono |
| chronic, multisymptom, inflammatory, autoimmune disease | lupus |
| inflammation and swelling of the lymph nodes | lymphadenitis |
| autoimmune diease in which the skin and blood vessels thicken | scleroderma |
| infection of the tonsils | tonsillitis |
| excessive thirst is called | polydypsia |
| synthetic form of oxytocin | pitocin |
| common symptom of someone with diabetes insipidus | excessive thirst from water loss |
| spleens first action in response to a deep cut | push out RBCs stored up |
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