MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
MATCHING EXERCISES KEY
ANATOMICAL TERMS
1.
2.
3.
4.
Adrenal
Hypophysis
Prolactin
Oxytocin
e. suprarenal
d. pituitary gland
a. hormone that stimulates milk production
b. hormone that stimulates parturition by
uterine contraction
c. hormone produced by islets of
Langerhans
5. Insulin
1.
2.
3.
4.
Pine-shaped gland in brain
Hormones secreted by kidney marrow
Egg-producing glands
Glands affecting male's reproduction
ability
5. Hormone from pineal gland that is 10
times greater at night
6. "Gadfly" hormone that puts women "in
heat"
7. Islets of Langerhans
8. Hormone that affects skin pigmentation
9. Sugar producing hormone
10. Hormone influencing absorption of water
by kidneys
c. pineal gland
e. epinephrine, norepinephrine
a. ovaries
b. testes
d. melatonin
i. estrogen
j. pancreas
f. melanocyte stimulating hormone
g. glucagon
h. antidiuretic hormone
SYMPTOMATIC AND DIAGNOSTIC TERMS
1.
2.
3.
4.
Polydipsia
Hyperglycemia
Hyperkalemia
Cretinism
8. Suprarenal cortex
9. Adrenaline
10. Polyuria
i. excessive thirst
e. high blood sugar
f. high potassium level in blood
g. hypothyroidism resulting in diminished
mental and physical development
a. hypersecretion of pituitary that causes
enlargement of extremities
b. sugar in the urine
c. excessive output of androgen in
adult women
j. the outer portion of the adrenal gland
h. epinephrine
d. excessive urination
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
f. adrenomegaly
e. hypoglycemia
g. pituicyte
i. adrenalinemia
h. adrenolytic
5. Acromegaly
6. Glucosuria
7. Adrenal virilism
Enlargement of the adrenal glands
Deficiency of sugar in the blood
A modified cell in the pituitary gland
Epinephrine in the blood
Interfering with the response of
epinephrine
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
6. Condition of eyeball protrusion
7. Deficiency in thyroid activity
8. Tumor of a parathyroid gland
9. Inflammation of the kidney's gland
10. Inflammation of an adrenal gland
c. exophthalmia
a. hypothyroidism
d. parathyroidoma
b. adrenalitis or j. adrenitis
b. adrenalitis or j. adrenitis