Chapter 7.4

Question 1

Gland condition

Answer 1

Adenosis

Question 2

Combination of medical disorders associated with faulty metabolism

Answer 2

Dysmetabolic syndrome

Question 3

Condition characterized by elevated levels of ketone bodies in the blood

Answer 3

Ketosis

Question 4

Disease involving many glands

Answer 4

Polyadenopathy

Question 5

Tumor of the thymus

Answer 5

Thymoma

Question 6

Tumor of the adrenal gland

Answer 6

Adrenal adenoma

Question 7

Condition in which the adrenal gland under produce necessary hormones

Answer 7

Adrenal insufficiency

Question 8

Inflammation of the adrenal gland

Answer 8

Adrenalitis

Question 9

Cancerous tumor originating in the cortex of the adrenal gland

Answer 9

Adrenocortical carcinoma

Question 10

Condition in which the adrenal cortex under produces necessary hormones

Answer 10

Adrenocortical insufficiency

Question 11

Over development of the cortex of the adrenal gland

Answer 11

Adrenocorticohyperplasia

Question 12

Genetic disease in which the adrenal gland is over developed, resulting in a deficiency of certain hormones and an overproduction of others

Answer 12

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Question 13

Metabolic disease characterized by excessive urination and hyperglycemia

Answer 13

Diabetes mellitus

Question 14

Acidity of the blood caused by the presence of Ketone bodies produced when the body is unable to burn sugar; this, it must burn fat for energy

Answer 14

Diabetic ketoacidosis

Question 15

Tumor that secretes insulin

Answer 15

Insulinoma

Question 16

Abnormally expanded area in the pancreas resembling a cyst

Answer 16

Pancreatic pseudocyst

Question 17

Inflammation of the pancreas

Answer 17

Pancreatitis

Question 18

Stone in the pancreas

Answer 18

Pancreatolith

Question 19

Presence of a stone in the pancreas

Answer 19

Pancreatolithiasis

Question 20

Over functioning of the pituitary gland

Answer 20

Hyperpituitarism

Question 21

Inflammation of the pituitary gland

Answer 21

Hypophysitis

Question 22

Condition caused by the under secretion of the pituitary gland

Answer 22

Hypopituitarism

Question 23

Defective or absent function of the entire pituitary gland

Answer 23

Panhypopituitarism