DIABETES MELLITUS
Across
- 5. excess glucose in the urine
- 6. begins with insulin resistance, noninsulin-dependent
- 8. hormone secreted by the alpha cells of the pancreas, which stimulate release of glucose by the liver
- 9. delivers insulin continuously through a subcutaneous needle
- 10. increased urination
- 11. occurs when a rapid decrease in blood glucose causes the release of glucose-elevating hormones
- 13. disorder of metabolism, 23.6 million Americans have it
- 15. excessive thirst
- 16. for glucose to cross the cell membrane insuiln must connect with a ........ on the cell membrane
- 17. ketones found in the urine
- 18. insulin-dependent
- 20. increased hunger
Down
- 1. most powerful risk factor of type two diabetes
- 2. type one diabetes is what type of disorder
- 3. occurs during pregnancy
- 4. elevated blood glucose
- 7. atrophy or hypertrophy in the subcutaneous fat
- 12. low blood glucose
- 14. hormone produced and secreted by the beta cells of the islets of langerhans in the pancreas
- 19. early morning glucose elavation produced by the release of growth hormone