Knowledge Check Definitions

Question 1

Occurring at an abnormal place or upon the wrong part of the body

Answer 1

Heterotrophic

Question 2

Wedge-shaped muscle posterior to the thyroid gland

Answer 2

Longus Colli muscle

Question 3

Causing little pain or slow-growing

Answer 3

Indolent

Question 4

Area on nuclear medicine study where the radioisotope has not been taken up

Answer 4

Cold Nodule

Question 5

Most common inflammatory disease of the thyroid gland

Answer 5

Hashimoto thyroiditis

Question 6

Benign solid tumour

Answer 6

Adenoma

Question 7

Oversecretion of parathyroid hormones

Answer 7

Primary hyperparathyroidism

Question 8

Thyroid gland is producing the correct amount of thyroid hormone

Answer 8

Euthyroid

Question 9

Disorder associated with elevated serum calcium levels, usually caused by benign parathyroid adenoma

Answer 9

Hyperparathyroidism

Question 10

Congenital anomaly, located anterior to the trachea, extending from the base of the tongue to the isthmus of the thyroid

Answer 10

Thyroglossal duct cyst

Question 11

Hormone that regulates serum calcium and phosphate

Answer 11

Parathyroid hormone

Question 12

Invasive procedure using a small gauge needle to obtain a tissue sample from a specific lesion

Answer 12

Fine needle aspiration

Question 13

Large muscles located anterolateral to the thyroid

Answer 13

SCM

Question 14

Most common form of thyroid cancer

Answer 14

Papillary carcinoma

Question 15

Increase in colour Doppler vascular flow in the thyroid

Answer 15

Thyroid inferno

Question 16

Hyperechoic foci that may or may not shadow

Answer 16

Microcalcifications

Question 17

Sternohyoid and sternothyroid muscles located anterior to the thyroid

Answer 17

Strap muscles

Question 18

Band of thyroid tissue connecting the right and left lobes

Answer 18

Isthmus

Question 19

Loss of differentiation of cells, which is characteristic of tumour tissue

Answer 19

Anaplasia

Question 20

Underactive thyroid hormones

Answer 20

Hypothyroidism

Question 21

Enlargement of the glands

Answer 21

Adenopathy

Question 22

Inflammation of the thyroid

Answer 22

Thyroiditis

Question 23

Autoimmune hyperthyroidism caused by antibodies that continuously activate TSH receptors

Answer 23

Graves disease

Question 24

Hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the thyroid to secrete T3 and T4

Answer 24

Thyroid-stimulating hormone

Question 25

Focal or diffuse thyroid gland enlargement due to iodine deficiency

Answer 25

Goiter