Hormone, Diabetes and Metabolism Terms

Subtype governs almost everything about the outlook, so two people given the same diagnosis on paper can face very different diseases.

A type of cell in the thyroid.

A gland located beneath the larynx (voice box) that makes thyroid hormone and calcitonin.

A hormone that affects heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and weight.

Treatment with thyroid hormone, which is a hormone that affects heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and weight.

A hormone produced by the pituitary gland.

Thyroidectomy removes part or all of the thyroid gland to treat conditions such as nodules, overactive thyroid, or thyroid cancer.

One name covering several unrelated illnesses, united only by an inflamed thyroid and by hormone levels that often swing before settling.

A medical doctor who specializes in thyroid diseases.

A form of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) that is made in the laboratory.

Therapy used to eliminate male sex hormones (androgens) in the body.

Therapy used to eliminate estrogen in the body.

A rare, inherited disorder that affects the endocrine glands and can cause tumors in the parathyroid and pituitary glands and the pancreas.

Ulcers that keep coming back in unusual places, traced to a small hormone-producing tumor that leaves the stomach permanently switched on.

A substance that blocks an enzyme needed by the body to make dihydrotestosterone (a male sex hormone made from testosterone).

A hormone found in the brain, platelets, digestive tract, and pineal gland.