Endocrine System Diseases & Disorders
Across
- 2. decreases a secretion of PTH, leads to hypocalcemia & hyperphosphatemia
- 3. disease causes the thyroid to produce too much TH
- 4. thickened, nonpitting edematous changes to the soft tissues of patient in a marked hypothyroid state
- 8. occurs when the parathyroid gland make too much PTH (rickets)
- 11. excessive androgen production
- 12. gentic disorder that makes XY fetuses insensitive to androgens, they are born looking like normal girls
- 14. a condition of severely stunted physical & mental growth owing to untreated congenital deficiency of the thyroid hormone
- 15. occurs due to abnormally high level of the hormone cortisol
- 16. results from excess growth hormones after the growth plates have closed
- 18. conditioned characterized by excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of urine
Down
- 1. (diabetes mellitus) an abnormally high blood glucose (blood sugar) levels
- 3. abnormal growth
- 5. (SAD) a type of depression that's related to changes in the season
- 6. Enlargement of the thyroid that isn't associated w/overproduction of the thyroid hormone or malignancy
- 7. occurs when the body produces insufficient amounts of certain hormones produced by the adrenal gland
- 9. A disease in which the adrenal gland(s) make too much aldosterone which leads to hypertension(high blood pressure)& low blood potassium level
- 10. growth & development disorder caused by insufficient secretion of GH
- 13. low blood sugar levels
- 17. (steroid abuse) excessive body hair, results from excess of androgens