Chapter Fourteen. Medications Affecting the Endocrine System
Medical Term Hot List
✓ Antidiabetic agents
✓ Antithyroid agents
✓ Cretin
✓ Exophlthalmos
✓ Hyperglycemia
✓ Hyperthyroidism
✓ Hypoglycemia
✓ Hypothyroidism
✓ Insulin
✓ Iodine
✓ Lactic acid
✓ Lactic acidosis
✓ Myxedema
✓ Thyroid-stimulating hormone
✓ Thyroid-replacement hormones
✓ Thyroxine
✓ Trophic
Structure and Function of the Endocrine System
Note
The review here is restricted to the thyroid and pancreas glands.
Secretion of hormones from specialized glands that regulate metabolic activities is the work of the endocrine system (namely, the thyroid and the pancreas). Hormones are chemical transmitters secreted by the glands in response to stimulation from the hypothalamus in the ...
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