Endocrine System
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Ladylion1490 on November 30, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Adren/o adrenal/o | adrenal glands |
| Calc/o | calcium |
| Crin/o | secrete |
| gluc/o glyc/o glycos/o | sugar, sweetness |
| home/o | same, alike |
| kal/i | potassium -an electrolyte |
| pancreat/o | pancreas |
| parathyroid/o | parathyroid glands |
| thym/o | thymus gland |
| thyr/o thyroid/o | thyroid gland |
| toxic/o | poison |
| -crine | secrete |
| -dipsia | thirst |
| -gen | forming, producing, origin |
| -toxic | poison |
| -uria | urine |
| eu- | good, normal |
| exo- | outside, outward |
| hyper- | excessive, above normal |
| hypo- | under, below |
| poly- | many, much |
| acromegaly | chronic metabolic disorder characterized by a gradual, marked enlargement and thickening of the bones of the face and jaw |
| diuresis | increased formation and secretion of urine |
| glycosuria | presence of glucose in the urine or abnormal amount of sugar in the urine |
| hypercalcemia | excessive amount of calcium in the blood |
| hyperkalemia | excessive amounts of potassium in the blood |
| hypervolemia | abnormal increase in the volume of circulating fluid-plasma-in the body |
| hyponatremia | abnormal condition of low sodium in the blood |
| insulinoma | tumor of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas |
| panhypopituitarism | total pituitary impairment that brings about a progressive and general loss of hormonal activity |
| thyroid storm | crisis of uncontrolled hyperthyroidism caused on the release into the bloodstream of increased amount of thyroid hormone; also called thyroid crisis or thyrotoxic crisis |
| exophthalmometry | test that measures the degree of forward displacement of the eyeball-exophthalmos-as seen in Graves disease |
| computed tomography -CT | imaging technique that rotates an x-ray emitter around the area to be scanned and measure the intensity of transmitted raise from different angles |
| thyroid scan | after injection of a radioactive substance, a scanner detects radioactivity and visualizes the thyroid gland |
| parathyroidectomy | excision of one or more of the parathyroid glands, usually to control hyperpapathyroidism |
| thymectomy | excision of the thymus gland |
| throidectomy | excision of the thyroid gland |
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