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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
MATCHING EXERCISES
ANATOMICAL TERMS
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Adrenal
Hypophysis
Prolactin
Oxytocin
Insulin
a. hormone that stimulates milk production
b. hormone that stimulates parturition by
uterine contraction
c. hormone produced by islets of
Langerhans
d. pituitary gland
e. suprarenal
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Pine-shaped gland in brain
Hormones secreted by kidney marrow
Egg-producing glands
Glands affecting male's reproduction
ability
5. Hormone from pineal gland that is 10
times greater at night
6. "Gadfly" hormone that puts women "in
heat"
7. Islets of Langerhans
8. Hormone that affects skin pigmentation
9. Sugar producing hormone
10. Hormone influencing absorption of water
by kidneys
a. ovaries
b. testes
c. pineal gland
d. melatonin
e. epinephrine, norepinephrine
f. melanocyte stimulating hormone
g. glucagon
h. antidiuretic hormone
i. estrogen
j. pancreas
SYMPTOMATIC AND DIAGNOSTIC TERMS
1. Polydipsia
2. Hyperglycemia
3. Hyperkalemia
4. Cretinism
5. Acromegaly
6. Glucosuria
7. Adrenal virilism
8. Suprarenal cortex
9. Adrenaline
10. Polyuria
a. hypersecretion of pituitary that causes
enlargement of extremities
b. sugar in the urine
c. excessive output of androgen in
adult women
d. excessive urination
e. high blood sugar
f. high potassium level in blood
g. hypothyroidism resulting in
diminished mental and
physical development
h. epinephrine
i. excessive thirst
j. the outer portion of the adrenal gland
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a. hypothyroidism
b. adrenalitis
c. exophthalmia
d. parathyroidoma
e. hypoglycemia
Enlargement of the adrenal glands
Deficiency of sugar in the blood
A modified cell in the pituitary gland
Epinephrine in the blood
Interfering with the response of
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
epinephrine
6. Condition of eyeball protrusion
7. Deficiency in thyroid activity
8. Tumor of a parathyroid gland
9. Inflammation of the kidney's gland
10. Inflammation of an adrenal gland
f. adrenomegaly
g. pituicyte
h. adrenolytic
i. adrenalinemia
j. adrenitis