Assessment - Pancreas

Question 1

diabetes mellitus

Answer 1

metabolic disease characterized by excessive urination and hyperglycemia

Question 2

diabetic ketoacidosis

Answer 2

acidity of the blood caused by the presence of ketone bodies produced when the body is unable to burn sugar; thus it must burn fat for energy

Question 3

pancreatic pseudocyst

Answer 3

abnormally expanded area in the pancreas resembling a cyst

Question 4

pacreatitis

Answer 4

inflammation of the pancreas

Question 5

pancreatolith

Answer 5

stone in the pancreas

Question 6

pancreatolithiasis

Answer 6

presence of a stone in the pancreas