Anatomy & More
When the body partially metabolizes fats for fuel
What is Ketoacidosis?
What is a Growth hormone release from pituitary gland and is important for the regeneration and repair of damaged tissue healing in adults?
What is Somatotrophin?
A client who poorly manages diabetes, has cardiovascular disease, experiences neuropathy, with skin ulcerations
When massage is Contraindicated?
Bodies inability to produce or properly use insulin resulting in high glucose levels
What is diabetes mellitus?
Cortisol
What is know as the stress hormone?
Excessive Urination
What is diabetes insidious?
Coming from the adrenal gland, these hormones are associated with short-term, high-grade stress that act to reinforce the reactions initiated by the sympathetic nervous system
What are Epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine?
This type of diabetes is an autoimmune disorder
What is type 1 diabetes?
Autoimmune destruction of the adrenal cortex leading to low cortisol levels and hyperpigmentation of the skin
What is Addisons disease?
Obesity
What is characterized by excessive body fat accumulation, pairs health and shows in a high Body Mass Index number based on hight and weight?
Most endocrine regulation is operated this way
What is a negative feedback loop?
From the adrenal cortex, these secretions help regulate electrolyte balance, control fluid retention, and influence blood pressure
What is Aldosterone?
Mainly effects women over the age of 40 and can metastasize to bones and lung
What is Thyroid Cancer?
This autoimmune disorder is linked to hyperthyroidism and presents as anxiety, irritability, insomnia, rapid heart rate, tremors, sensitivity to heat, skeletal muscle weakness, and gointer
What is Graves' disease?
Hashimotos
Most common form of hypothyroidism
Lack of capillary circulation and excessive sugar in the blood both contribute to this condition
What is Neuropathy?
Released by the pancreas, these two hormones help regulate blood glucose
What are insulin and glucagon?
A situation where too much thyroid hormone is present
What is Thyrotoxicosis?
Sluggish, excessive fatigue, weight gain, chronic constipation, hair loss, hypertension, high cholesterol, carpal tunnel syndrome, anemia, and heavy menstrual periods
Cushing's syndrome
What is caused by prolonged exposure to high cortisol levels and presents with a moon face, central obesity, and purple stale?
Name the major organs of the endocrine system?
What are the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, hypothalamus, thymus, and adrenal glands, pancreas, kidney, testes, and ovaries?
The antagonist of calcitonin hormone
what is the Parathyroid hormone (PTH)?
(stimulates osteoclasts activity pulling calcium off the bones to raise blood calcium levels)
Type 1 diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus, and pernicious anemia are a few of the pathologies link to Graves' disease
What is polyglandular syndrome?
Name 5 identifying features of metabolic syndrome
What are high triglycerides, low high density lipoproteins, hypertension, central obesity, and high fasting blood glucose levels?
Double Diabetes
What is a situation where an individual has Type 1 diabetes but also develops insulin resistance seen with Type 2 diabetes?