Chapter 13 continued
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- ACTH
- andrenocorticotropic hormone
- ADH
- antidiuretic hormone
- BMR
- Basal Metabolic Rate
- Ca
- Calcium
- DI
- diabetes insipidus
- DM
- diabetes mellitus
- FBS
- Fasting blood sugar
- FSH
- follicel stimulating hormone
- GH
- growth hormone
- GTT
- glucose tolerance test
- HDL
- high density lipoprotein
- IDDM
- insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
- K
- potassium
- LH
- luteinizing hormone
- LTH
- lactogenic hormone
- Na
- Sodium
- NIDDM
- non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
- OT
- oxytocin
- PBI
- protein bound iodine
- PTH
- parathyroid hormone
- RAI
- radioactive iodine
- RAIU
- radioactive iodine uptake
- T3
- Triiodothyronine
- T4
- thyroxine
- TFT
- Thyroid functioning test
- TSH
- Thyroid stimulating hormone
- VLDL
- very low density lipoprotein
- pancreatitis
- an acute or chronic destructive inflammatory condition of the pancreas
- viriism
- develop. of the male secondary sex characteristics in the female due to the excessive secretion of andrenocortical androgens from the adrenal cortex
- Cushing's Syndrome
- a condition in the adrenal gland which there is a cluster of symptoms occuring as a result of an excessive amount of cortisol or ACTH circulating in the blood. Obesity, moon face, hypertension, weakness, poor wound healing, low potassium.