Exam 15: Endocrine System and Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Excessive calcium in the blood is

Which hormone stimulates growth of long bones and skeletal muscle and converts proteins to glucose?

Overproduction of hormones in which disorder leads to polyuria, hypercalcemia, hypertension, and kidney stones?

Somatotropin deficiency during childhood, resulting in dwarfism, is

Which hormone stimulates the thyroid to release two other thyroid hormones?

Oversecretion of insulin, seen in some newborns of diabetic mothers, is

An abnormal sensation such as prickling is

Pancreatoduodenectomy-cutting out the head of the pancreas together with the duodenum-is also called

What is the medical term for a genetic condition of rapid aging?

Another name for ADH is

The medical term for an excessive intake of food is

Protrusion of eyeballs from their orbits is

Which disease was previously called IDDM?

Deficiency or lack of all pituitary hormones, causing hypotension, weight loss, weakness, and loss of libido, is

When the blood glucose level is higher than normal but not enough to be classed as type 2 diabetes, the condition is called

Insufficient secretion of adrenal cortisol, manifested by gastric complaints, hypotension, and dehydration, is _____ disease.

Hypersecretion of somatotropin from the adenohypophysis during childhood, leading to excessive growth, is

Antidiabetics

A condition of deficient water in the body is

What is the name of the combining form for the gland in which islets of Langerhans are located?