Endocrine Disorders Crossword

This disease is a growth disorder caused by too much growth hormone being released by the pituitary gland, leading to excessive growth.
This disease is a rare disorder that affects men and women of all ages. Adrenal insufficiency develops when your adrenal glands do not produce enough of the hormone cortisol.
A rare tumor afflicting only one or two persons per one million population. It usually occurs in adults, and the median age at diagnosis is 44 years.
This disease reduces the glucose in the blood. Your body needs glucose to properly function. Your cells rely on glucose for energy.
Often arises within a more differentiated thyroid cancer or even within a goiter. Like papillary cancer, anaplastic thyroid cancer may arise many years following radiation exposure.
This diseases side effects are central body obesity, glucose intolerance, hypertension, excess hair growth, osteoporosis, kidney stones, and menstrual irregularity.
Patients will experience a hyperthyroid period as the cellular lining of colloid spaces fails, allowing abundant colloid into the circulation, with neck pain and fever.
This tumor causes abnormal growths that can develop in your pituitary gland.
Occurs in a slightly older age group than papillary thyroid cancer and is also less common in children.
While pregnant, women who have never had diabetes before but then develop high blood glucose levels may be diagnosed as having this disease
An abnormally large thyroid gland
This disease is a type of autoimmune problem that causes the thyroid gland to produce too much thyroid hormone, which is called hyperthyroidism.
a pre-diagnosis of diabetes
This disease has a condition in which the body doesn’t create enough growth hormone. Other names for growth hormone deficiency are dwarfism and pituitary dwarfism.
Is the most common form of thyroiditis but also the most common thyroid disorder in America. The disease, affects 14 million people in the United States alone.
Is usually classified with follicular thyroid cancer, although it really is a distinct kind of tumor, making up about 3% of all thyroid cancer cases.
This disease is a defining characteristic of diabetes—when the blood glucose level is too high because the body isn't properly using or doesn't make the hormone insulin.
The primary disease of parathyroid glands is overactivity too much parathyroid hormone is produced.
An abnormal overgrowths of tissue in the thyroid gland that are most often benign—but may be cancerous in some people.