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| Mineral salt (Na+, K+, and Ca2+) that carries an electrical charge in solution |
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| Hormone produced by pancreatic alpha cells that stimulate the liver to change stored glycogen to glucose |
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| Simple sugar that is the end product of carbohydrate digestion |
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| Hormone produced by pancreatic beta cells that allows body cells to use glucose for energy or store it in the liver as glycogen |
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| Agent that mimics the effects of the sympathetic nervous system |
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| Rare hormonal disorder in adulthood, usually caused by a GH-secreting pituitary tumor (adenoma) that promotes the soft tissue ad bones of the face, hands, and feet to grow larger than normal |
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| Increased formation and production of urine |
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| Abnormal amounts of glucose in the urine |
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| Multisystem autoimmune disorder characterized by pronounced hyperthyroidism usually associated with enlarged thyroid glands (goiter) and exophthalmos (abnormal protrusion of the eyeballs) |
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| Excessive distribution of body hair, especially in women |
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| Condition in which the calcium level in the blood is higher than normal |
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| Condition in which the potassium levels in the blood is higher than normal |
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| Abnormal increase in the volume of blood plasma in the body |
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| Lower than normal levels of Sodium in the blood |
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| Tumor of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas |
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| Excessive accumulation of fat that exceeds the body's skeletal and physical standards, usually an increase of 20% or more above ideal body weight |
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| Body mass index of 40 or greater, which is generally 100 or more pounds over ideal body weight |
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| Total pituitary impairment that brings about a progressive and general loss of hormone activity |
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| Small chromaffin cell tumor, usually located in the adrenal medulla, causing elevated HR and blood |
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| Crisis of uncontrolled hyperthyroidism caused by the release into the bloodstream of an increased amount of thyroid hormone; also called thyroid crisis or thyrotoxic crisis |
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| Masculinization or development of male secondary sex characteristics in a woman |
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| Measures the degree of forward displacement of the eyeball (exophthalmos) as seen in Graves Disease |
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| Excision of one or more of the parathyroid glands, usually to control hyperparathyroidism |
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| transsphenoidal hypophysectomy |
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| Endoscopic procedure to surgically remove a potuitary tumor through an incision in the sphenoid sinus (transsphenoidal) without disturbing brain tissue |
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| Excision of the thymus gland |
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| Excision of the entire thyroid gland (thyroidectomy), a part of it (subtotal thyroidectomy), or a single lobe (thyroid lobectomy) |
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| Test that measures glucose levels in a blood sample following a fast of at least 8 hours |
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| glucose tolerance test (GTT) |
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| Screening test in which a dose of glucose is administered and blood samples are taken afterward at regular intervals to determine how quickly glucose is cleared from the blood |
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| Diagnostic test in which insulin is injected into the vein to assess pituitary function, adrenal function, and to determine insulin sensitivity |
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| test that detects an increase or decrease in thyroid function |
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| test that measures calcium to detect bone and parathyroid disorders |
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| Imaging technique that rotates an x-ray emitter around the area to be scanned and measures the intensity of transmitted rays from different angles |
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| noninvasive imaging technique that uses radio waves and a strong magnetic field, rather than an x-ray beam, to produce multiplanar cross-sectional images |
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| Radioactive iodine uptake |
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| Administration of a radioactive iodine in pill or liquid form is used as a tracer to test how quickly the thyroid gland takes up iodine from the blood |
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| Images of the thyroid gland are obtained after oral or intravenous administration of a small dose of radioactive iodine |
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