Exam 11: Endocrine System

Pheochromocytoma is usually a cancerous tumor of the adrenal medulla.

Which of the following medications has strong anti-inflammatory properties?

Diabetic retinopathy affects the blood vessels of the retina in diabetic patients.

A medical term that means sugar in the urine is ________.

Thymosin is essential to the growth and development of T cells.

A combining form that means eye (besides ocul/o,opt/o,and optic/o)is ________.

The combining form that means sex glands is ________.

The thyroid hormones adjust the body's metabolic rate.

Which of the following endocrine glands is the female gonad?

Which of the following statements regarding mineralocorticoid hormones is NOT true?

Hirsutism is a term for the condition of having insufficient hair.

A medical term that means surgical removal of adrenal gland is ________.

Which of the following hormones is NOT secreted by the thyroid gland?

A medical term that means surgical removal of parathyroid gland is ________.

Which of the following conditions develops from an overproduction of growth hormone in a child?

Which of the following diagnostic procedures uses ultrasound?

Which of the following hormones is secreted by the adrenal medulla?

The suffix that means to stimulate is ________.

A medical term that means pertaining to the pancreas is ________.

Graves' disease is caused by: