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| Chemical messengers used by the endocrine system to regulate body functions are: |
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| Patients who exhibit a lack of appetite may have which term in their chart? |
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| Enlargement of the thyroid gland that is not due to a tumor is called: |
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| Deficiency or lack of all pituitary hormones, causing hypotension, weight loss, weakness and loss of libido, is: |
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| Which extreme form of this disorder is called myxedema in adults and cretinism in children: |
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| Overproduction of hormones in which disorder leads to polyuria, hypercalcemia, hypertension, and kidney stones? |
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| One type of which disorder may be accompanied by exophthalmia and is termed Graves' Disease? |
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| Deficiency of calcium in the blood is: |
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| Deficiency of sodium in the blood is: |
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| An abnormal sensation such as prickling is: |
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| The condition of excessive urination is: |
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| The condition of excessive thrist is: |
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| Continuous muscle spasms are: |
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| Excessive secretion of cortisol, leading to obesity, leukocytosis, hirsutism, hypokalemia, hyperglycemia, and muscle wasting, is ___ disease. |
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| Insufficient secretion of adrenal cortisol, manifected by gastric complaints, hypotension, and dehydration, is ___ disease. |
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| Total lack of insulin production, with symptoms of polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria, blurred vision, fatigue, and frequent infections, is: |
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| Oversecretion of insulin, seen in some newborns of diabetic mothers, is: |
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| Deficient insulin production associated with obesity and family history is: |
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| Which disease was previouly called IDDM? |
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| Which disease was previouly called NIDDM? |
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| What is a condition of patients who are 50% to 100% over their ideal body weight? |
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| What is the medical term for an excessive amount of ketone acids in the bloodstream? |
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| An inherited disorder of the exocrine glands, resulting in abnormal, thick secretions of mucus that causes COPD, is: |
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| A condition of deficient water in the body is: |
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| Cutting out part or all of the pancreas is: |
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| Cutting out the parathyroid gland is: |
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| Cutting out part or all of the thyroid gland is: |
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| Pancreatoduodenectomy-cutting out the head of the pancreas together with the duodenum-is also called: |
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| Oversecretion of ADH, leading to severe hyponatremia, is called: |
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| The presence of ketones in the urine is called: |
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| deficient sodium in blood |
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| deficient potassium in blood |
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| deficient calcium in blood |
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| protrusion of eyeballs from their orbits |
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| enlargement of the thyroid gland |
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