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- 1. Low blood sugar
- 3. Gland that controls the body's biorhythms or the body's 24-hour cycle
- 5. This disease is the result of excessive amounts of cortisol in the blood caused either by hyperpituitarism or the long term use of corticosteroids
- 6. Acronym for hormone that stimulates the thyroid to synthesize and secrete hormones
- 9. Deficiency of this nutrient may lead to a goiter
- 11. Hormone that decreases urine production and raises blood pressure
- 12. Pancreatic cells that produce insulin when needed
- 14. Hormone that helps glucose move into body cells when needed
- 15. an enlargement of the thyroid gland
- 18. This disease is characterized by hyperactivity of the thyroid gland with a resultant goiter
- 20. Hormone that increases blood calcium levels
- 22. This disease is the result of chronic adrenal insufficiency caused by reduced production of cortisol
- 23. Glands that produce parathyroid hormone
- 25. Hormone that is released during times of stress and is produced by the adrenal cortex
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- 2. Hormone that increases blood glucose levels
- 4. This area of the pituitary produces growth hormone
- 7. This form of diabetes is characterized by chronic elevated blood glucose levels and disturbances in protein, fat, and carbohydrate metabolism
- 8. Gland that produces antidiuretic hormone
- 10. Malignancy of the thyroid
- 13. a form of hyperpituitarism, is the result of overproduction of growth hormone during adult years, after the onset of puberty
- 16. This disease is characterized by an underactive thyroid, leading to thyroid hormone insufficiency, developing slowly over months or years
- 17. Disease that causes eyes to bulge
- 19. a form of hyperpituitarism that is the overproduction of growth hormone during childhood years, before the onset of puberty
- 21. underdevelopment of the lower body and is a form of hypopituitarism
- 24. This form of diabetes is an insufficiency of antidiuretic hormone and does not involve the pancreas