Chapter 12 Flashcards
What is the medical term for a medical specialist in endocrinology ?
Endocrinologist
What is the medical term for a medical speciality concerned with the production and effects of hormones ?
Endocrinology
What does the prefix endo mean ?
Within
What does the R/CF crine mean?
Secrete
What is the medical term for hormone formed by the pineal gland ?
Melatonin
What medical term means neurotransmitter in central and peripheral nervous system ?
Serotonin
What is the medical fern for a gland that produces an internal or hormonal secretion ?
Endocrine
What is the medical term for enlargement of head, face, hands, and feet due to excess growth hormone after growth plates have closed ?
Acromegaly
What does the suffix megaly mean ?
Enlargement
What does the R/CF acr/o mean ?
Peak, highest point
What does OT stand for?
Oxytocin
What in childbirth stimulated uterine contractions , and in lactation. It forced milk to flow down ducts to the nipple. In both sexes, it’s production increases during social interactions and sexual intercourse to help give the feelings of satisfaction and emotional bonding ?
Oxytocin
What does the root oxy mean ?
Oxygen
What is the medical term for a hormone if the anterior pituitary that stimulated the cortex of the adrenal gland to produce its own hormone ?
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Where is the adrenocorticotropic located ?
In kidney
What is the medical term for an organ that produces sex cells, a testis or an ovary ?
Gonad
What is the medical term for pituitary hormone that stimulates the production of milk ?
Prolactin
What does the root lact mean ?
Milk
What does the prefix pro mean ?
Before
What is the medical term for a hormone from the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates function of the thyroid gland ?
Thyrotropin
What is the medical term for hormone produced by the thyroid gland that moves calcium from blood to bones ?
Calcitonin
What is the medical term for endocrine gland in the neck or a cartilage of the larynx ?
Thyroid
What stimulates almost every tissue in the body to produce proteins, increases the amount of oxygen that cells use, and controls the speed of the body’s chemical functions known as the metabolic rate ?
Thyroid hormone
What is the medical term for deficient production of thyroid hormones ?
Hypothyroidism
What does the prefix hypo mean ?
Deficient or below
What does the prefix hyper mean ?
Excessive
What does the suffix oid mean ?
Resembling
What is the medical term for excessive production of thyroid hormones ?
Hyperthyroidism
What hyperthyroidism also know as ?
Thyrotoxicosis
What is the medical term for deficient levels of parathyroid hormone ?
Hypoparathyroidism
What does the prefix para mean ?
Adjacent
What is the medical term for excessive levee of parathyroid hormone ?
Hyperparathyroidism
What is the medical term for hyperthyroidism with toxic goiter ?
Graves’ disease