What is the disease that results in excessive secretions of T3, T4, or both?
100
Electrochemical stimuli that travel from cell to cell as they send information from one area of the body to another.
What are nervous impulses?
100
Body Mass Index
What does BMI stand for?
100
Simple sugar that is the end product of carbohydrate digestion.
What is glucose?
200
process of recording
What is the meaning of -graphy?
200
Diabetes
This disease is treated by insulin because the body does not produce enough?
200
The cell body, axon, and dendrites.
Three major structures of the neuron are?
200
Milligrams per deciliter
What does mg/dl stand for?
200
Agent that mimics the effects of the sympathetic nervous system.
What is sympathomimetic?
300
radicul/o
What is the combining for of nerve root?
300
Shaking palsy
Parkinson disease is also referred to as?
300
A white, lipoid covering that are processed by the peripheral nervous system and central nervous system.
What is myelin sheath?
300
PTH
What is the abbreviation for parathroid hormone; also called parathormone?
300
electrolytes
What is term for mineral salts (sodium, potassium, and calcium) that carry and electrical charge in soultion?
400
pancreat/o
What is the combining form for pancreas?
400
A progressive, degenerative disease of the central nervous. Characterized by inflammation, hardening, and loss of myelin throughtout the spinal cord and brain.
What is the disease Muliple Sclerosis (MS)?
400
The body's internal state of equilibrium that is maintained so all body systems can function most effectively.
The primary function of the endocrine system is to keep the body in homeostasis, which means?
400
Transient ischemic attack
What is TIA?
400
Carry or move away from a central structure.
What is efferent?
500
thirst
What does the suffix -dipsia mean?
500
Irrational, uncontrolled performance of ritualistic actions for fear of dire consequences.
What is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
500
exocrine glands
The endocrine system includes glands that secrete hormones directly into the bloodsteam rather than though a duct. This gland is called what?
500
EEG
What is the abbreivation for Ectroencephalography?
500
Additional sheath external to myelin that is formed by Schwann cells and found only in the peripheral nervous system.