Endocrine Drugs Flashcards

1
Q

this hormone is given subcutaneously to lowers the level of glucose and to treat diabetes when the body can’t make enough insulin on its own

A

insulin

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2
Q

a drug to initiate or help start or continue labor and to control bleeding after delivery?

A

oxytocin

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3
Q

Made up of glands that make hormones?

A

Endocrine System

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4
Q

This hormone is released by thyroid that controls the body’s metabolism?

A

Thyroid Hormone

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5
Q

this drug is to replace or provides more thyroid hormone to patient that is thyroid are removed by surgery and to treat an uderactive thyroid gland or hypothyroidism

A

Levothyroxine

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6
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A disorder in which the body does not produce enough or respond normally to insulin, causing blood sugar (glucose) levels to be abnormally high

A

Diabetes Mellitus

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7
Q

These are the chemical messengers of the body that are secreted directly into the blood?

A

Hormones

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8
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one of the most common complications of subcutaneous insulin injections which there are presence of lumps of fat or scar tissue form under your skin caused by repeat injections or infusions in the same area of the body

A

Lypohyperthrophy

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9
Q

it fight inflammation and work with immune system to treat wide range of health problems

A

Glucocorticoids

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10
Q

insulin and glucagon are hormones that regulates the blood glucose in the body, which organ this kind of hormones from?

A

Pacreas

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11
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what type of diabetes does their pancreas doesn’t make insulin, and was once called insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes

A

type 1 diabetes

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