Wordsearch 1 Flashcards
These ‘islets’ within the pancreas contain alpha and beta cells
Langerhans
The liver stores excessive glucose as what?
Glycogen
An acute complication of type 1 diabetes
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Raised blood sugar levels
Hyperglycaemia
The liver breaks down fatty acids to make what?
Ketones
The name given to describe the deep, laboured, and rapid breathing in DKA
Kussmaul breathing
Kidneys release renin from what cells of the kidney?
Juxtaglomerular
An acute complication of type 2 diabetes
Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state
Renin travels to the liver where what is converted to angiotensin?
Angiotensinogen I
Angiotensin I travels to the lungs where it is affected by ACE and converts into angiotensin II causing what?
Vasoconstriction
What is released from the adrenal glands during the RAAS system?
Aldosterone
What causes an increase in water reabsorption in the collecting duct of the nephron?
Anti diuretic hormone
Pain caused by the activation of specialist nerve fibres
Nociceptive
Long term damage to nerve fibres
Neuropathic
The 4 parts of nociceptive pain
Nociception, transmission, perception, modulation
What part of the brain receives most of the pain signal?
Thalamus
A new growth of cells which is abnormal
Neoplasm
Cancer from glandular epithelial cells
Adenocarcinomas
The 2 types of strokes
Ischaemic, haemorrhagic
Difficulty with language
Dysphasia
The most common type of dementia
Alzheimer’s disease
The term given to the brain’s ability to ‘remap’, learn new tasks
Neuroplasticity
Type of seizure where there is widespread erratic electrical activity, patient loses awareness for a short time and looks ‘blank’
Absence
Non-epileptic seizures are otherwise known as?
Dissociative seizures
Type of seizure where there is widespread erratic electrical activity caused by ‘jerk’ like movements and the patient is normally conscious
Myoclonic
The hallmark of cancer (6)
Unlimited proliferation, evading growth suppressors, resistance to cell death, replicative immortality, angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis
