Hormone, Diabetes and Metabolism Terms

Hormones (estrogen, progesterone, or both) given to women after menopause to replace the hormones no longer produced by the ovaries.

The menstrual cycle is the recurring hormonal sequence that prepares the uterine lining for pregnancy and sheds it when pregnancy does not occur.

One adjective covers energy use, inherited enzyme faults, acid balance and a cluster of risk factors, so context decides its meaning.

Metabolic acidosis is a drop in blood pH caused by excess acid production or loss of the body's bicarbonate buffer.

A condition in which normal metabolic processes are disrupted, usually because of a missing enzyme.

Metabolic syndrome describes a cluster of findings, including abdominal obesity and abnormal blood pressure, glucose, and cholesterol levels, that together raise cardiovascular and diabetes risk.

Metabolic syndrome X is an older name for metabolic syndrome, the clustering of abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and abnormal glucose and lipid levels.

Treatment to correct changes in metabolism that can be caused by disease.

In alternative medicine, a theory that people fall into one of three groups (protein, carbohydrate, or mixed type) based on the main type of food that their bodies need to stay healthy.

Two opposing sets of reactions run at once, one tearing molecules apart for energy and the other spending that energy building new ones.

A substance made or used when the body breaks down food, drugs or chemicals, or its own tissue (for example, fat or muscle tissue).

A drug used to treat advanced prostate cancer that does not respond to hormones, adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, and advanced or chronic multiple sclerosis.

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

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

Describing the crossover point at which a nerve impulse ends in a hormone released into the blood rather than a message to the next cell.

Neuroendocrine tumors arise from hormone releasing cells scattered throughout the body and can secrete excess hormones causing varied symptoms.

A tumor that is found in endocrine tissue but does not make extra hormones.

A drug that decreases the production of sex hormones (estrogen or testosterone) and slows the growth of tumors that need sex hormones to grow.

A chemical made by some nerve cells and in the adrenal gland.

Most of what circulates leaks from sympathetic nerve endings rather than pouring out of the adrenal glands, unlike its better known relative.