What gland is a small pea-sized gland of minute weight but important responsibility, so much so that it is often referred to as the “master glad.” It is located beneath the brain in the pituitary fossa of the sphenoid bone.

What is one of the female hormone that promotes the development of female secondary sex characteristics?

Adenopathy

What disorder of the pancreas in which the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas fail to produce an adequate amount of insulin, resulting in the body’s inability to appropriately metabolize carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

DM

What gland is consist of four tiny rounded bodies located on the dorsal aspect of the thyroid gland. Which regulates the level of calcium in the blood.

What is a hormone secreted by the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas that stimulates the liver to convert glycogen into glucose?

polydipsia

What an acute or chronic destructive inflammatory condition of the pancreas

BMR

What gland is an elongated gland that is located in the upper left quadrant of the abdomen, behind the stomach. It extends horizontally across the body, edge of the spleen. It produce Glucagon and Insulin

What is less than normal blood calcium level?

glycogenolysis

What is a life-threatening disease process due to failure of the adrenal cortex to secrete adequate mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids resulting from an autoimmune process, a neoplasm, an infection, or a hemorrhage in the gland?

GTT

What gland is located in the upper pelvic cavity, on either side of the lateral wall of the uterus, near the fimbriated ends of the fallopian tubes. It produced Estrogen and Progesterone.

What is excessive thrist?

hypernatremia

What is hypertrophy of the thyroid gland resulting in an excessive secretion of the thyroid hormone that causes an extremely high body metabolism, thus creating multisystem changes?

FSH

What gland is consist of two small glands, with one being positioned atop each kidney. It secretes steroid hormones known as corticosteroids and catecholamines.

What hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland, stimulates the contractions of the uterus during childbirth and stimulates the release of milk from the breasts of lactating women, in response to the suckling reflex of the infant?

exocrine

What disorder in which women who are not diabetic before pregnancy develop diabetes during the pregnancy; that is they develop an inability to metabolize carbohydrates, with resultant hyperglycemia?

TSH