Hormones
What gland releases the growth hormone?
Pituitary gland
What is the name of the disorder of the pancreas that can cause fatigue, mood swings, weight loss, urinating and feelings of thrist more often, blurred vision, and ketones in urine when the blood has too much sugar?
Diabetes Mellitus
What thyroid gland disorder speeds up the body's metabolism, causing weight loss, tachycardia, and tremors of the hand?
Hyperthyroidism
Growth Hormone Deficiency makes a person be shorter in height, but have normal proportions, along with increased belly fat and LDL, decreased bone density, energy, and muscle tone, and a resistance to insulin. What gland causes this disorder?
What is the name of the parathyroid disorder that happens from low calcium levels, causing fatigue, muscle aches, burning sensation in the toes, fingertips, and lips, and muscle spasms?
Hypoparathyroidism
Estrogen and Progesterone are hormones that helps regulate the body's menstrual cycle and puberty. What gland are they produced by?
Ovaries
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome can cause symptoms of unusual hair growth, infertility, obesity, irregular periods, cysts, and darkened skin from too much of what hormone?
Androgens
Name the disorder that one gets due to too much cortisol from the adrenal gland, causing purple stretch marks, hump of fat forming between the shoulders, and a round face.
Cushing Syndrome
When the pancreas makes too little sugar for the blood hypoglycemia happens. What are at least 3 of its symptoms?
Headache, shaking, fatigue, hunger, paleness, anxiety, can't concentrate, and dizziness.
Hypothyroidism makes the body's metabolism slow down. What are 3 symptoms people with this disorder may experience?
Unexpected weight gain, constant fatigue, muscle weakness, anxiety, and depression.
The parathyroid hormone is there to detect the levels of what in your blood?
Levels of calcium
When the testes create too much testosterone Male Hypergonadism may occur. Name at least 3 symptoms of this disorder.
Acne, mood swings, deeper voice, premature growth spurts, and additional muscle mass.
Hyperparathryoidism makes a person experience weakness, joint pain, forgetfulness, loss of appetite, kidney stones, osteoporosis, and urinating more often, but is the cause of hyperparathryroidism?
Overproduction of calcium in the blood.
Addisons disease happens when the adrenal glands get damaged, causing them to make too little cortisol. What are at aleast 3 of its symptoms?
Fatigue, weight loss, craving salt, posterial hypotension, hypoglycemia, and stomach pain.
Male hypogonadism is a disorder of the testes that may cause a delay in puberty, infertility, and less muscle mass, hair growth, and bone density. The lack of what hormone causes this disorder?
Testosterone
What are the names of the two hormones your pancreas makes to regulate the levels of sugar in your blood?
Insulin and Glucagon
What is the name of the pituitary gland disorder that makes several organs, tissues, and bones grow in size?
Acromegaly
Narcolepsy is a disorder that causes a person to be drowsie in the day and experience sudden attacks of sleep. It is possible that this disorder may partially be caused by what gland?
Pineal Gland
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency is caused by too little estrogen, which makes that ovaries quit working before the age of 40. What are at least 3 symptoms of this disorder?
Infertility, difficulty focusing or remembering, irregular periods, night sweats, and hot flashes.
Diabetes Insipdus is a hypothalamus disorder that makes too little Vasopressin. What are at least 3 symptoms that it causes?
Urinating often, clear urine, feeling thirsty more often.
Hypothalamus creates the hormones dopamine and Vasopressin. What do these two hormones do?
Dopamine causes the brain to feel good and Vasopressin regulates the amount of water the body retains.
SIADH is a disorder of the hypothalamus that makes people experience hyponatremia, headache, weakness, lack of balance, nausea, and confusion. What is this disorder caused by?
Too much Vasopressin, meaning that body holds onto to too much water.
Myasthenia Gravis is a disorder that causes low muscle control and muscle weakness. How does the thymus gland relate to this disorder?
It is believed that the thymus makes anti-bodies that block acetylcholine.
Which disorder of the thymus gland causes the thymus to become enlargened, resulting in unexpected weight loss and appetite, headaches, and chest pain.
Thymus Hyperplasica
It is believed that change in melatonin secretion from the pineal gland causes people with this syndrome to spend their nights awakem days spent tired, and have trouble falling and staying asleep.
Smith-Magenis Syndrome