Chapter 14 - Endocrinology - World List Flash Cards

END/O/CRINE

PERTAINING TO (GLANDS THAT) SECRETE WITHIN (BLOOD VESSELS)

HOME/O/STASIS

STATE OF THE BODY AND ITS FUNCTIONS) STANDING STILL (AND REMAINING THE) SAME

HYPO/PHYSIS

STATE OF GLAND GROWING BELOW (ANOTHER NAME FOR PITUITARY GLAND)

ADEN/O/HYPOPHYSIS

(PART OF THE) PITUITARY GLAND (THAT ACTS LIKE A) GLAND

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ANTERIOR LOBE OF THE PITUITARY GLAND THAT PRODUICES ITS OWN HORMONES FOR SECRETION

PRO/LACT/IN

SUBSTANCE (THAT MUST BE SECRETED) BEFORE MILK (CAN BE PRODUCED)

GONAD/O/TROP/IN

SUBSTANCE (THAT) STIMULATES (HORMONE RELEASE FROM THE) OVARIES/TESTES

ADREN/O/CORTIC/O/TROP/IC

PERTAINING TO (THE) STIMULATION (OF THE) OUTER REGION (OF THE) ADRENAL GLAND (TO SECRETE ITS HORMONES)

MELAN/O/CYTE

BLACK (PIGMENTED) CELL

NEUR/O/HYPOPHYSIS

(POSTERIOR LOVE OF THE) PITUITARY GLAND (STIMULATED BY) NERVES

OX/Y/TOC/IN

SUBSTANCE (THAT) QUICKENS LABOR

ANTI/DI/UR/ETIC

PERTAINING TO (BEING) AGAINST (THE) COMPLETE (DISCHARGE OF) URINE

NEUR/O/END/O/CR/INE

PERTAINING TO (THE) NERVE (INTERACTIONS) WITHIN (THE BODY SYSTEMS THAT CAUSE HORMONE) SECRETIONS

EU/THYROID/ISM

PROCESS (OF THE) THYROID GLAND (FUNCTIONING) NORMALLY

THYM/IC

PERTAINING TO (THE) THYMUS

GLUC/AG/ON

SUBSTANCE (THAT) LEADS GLUCOSE (TO THE BLOODSTEAM) (FROM THE LIVER)

GLYC/O/GEN

THAT WHICH PRODUCES SUGAR

GLUC/OSE

FULL OF SUGAR

SOMAT/O/STATIN

SUBSTANCE (THAT MAKES THE) BODY (TO BE) STANDING STILL (WITHOUT GROWTH)

GLUC/O/CORTIC/OID

RESEMBLING SUGAR (FROM THE) OUTER REGION)

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(SUBSTANCE) RESEMBLING (STEROIDS, PRODUCED IN THE) OUTSIDE REGION (OF THE ADRENAL GLAND WHICH HEAVILY INFLUENCES THE) GLUCOSE (METABOLISM)

ANDR/O/GEN

THAT WHICH PRODUCES MALE (TRAITS)

ESTR/O/GEN

THAT WHICH PRODUCES FEMALE (TRAITS)

SYN/ERG/ISM

PROCESS (BY WHICH TWO THINGS) WORK TOGETHER (FOR AN ENCHANCED EFFECT)

PAN/HYPO/PITUITAR/ISM

DISEASE CAUSED (BY) DEFICIENCY (IN) ALL (HORMONES RELEASED FROM THE) PITUITARY GLAND

ACR/O/MEGALY

ENLARGEMENT (OF) EXTREMITIES

POLY/DIPS/IA

CONDITION (OF TOO) MUCH THIRST

HYPER/THYROID/ISM

DISEASE FROM (HAVING A) MORE THAN NORMAL (AMOUNT OF) THYROID GLAND (HORMONES BEING RELEASED)

HYPER/GLYC/EMIA

CONDITION OF THE BLOOD (HAVING) MORE THAN (A) NORMAL (AMOUNT OF) SUGAR (IN IT)

GLYCOS/UR/IA

CONDITION (OF) SUGAR (IN THE) URINE

POLY/PHAG/IA

CONDITION (OF TOO) MUCH EATING

NEUR/O/PATHY

NERVE DISEASE

LOB/ECTOMY

SURGICAL REMOVAL (OF A) LOBE OF AN ORGAN