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50 Cards in this Set
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The thyroid gland normally secrets what substance into the blood?
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Thyroxine
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Adrenocorticotropic hormone is released by
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Pituitary gland
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Growth hormone insufficiency during childhood causes
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Dwarfism
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Interact with growth hormones, except
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Insulin
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Antithyroid agents can cross the placenta and
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Stop fetal thyroid development
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Propylthiouracil is classified as
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An antithyroid drug
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Addison's disease is a deficiency of which hormones
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Cortisol, Aldosterone, Androgen
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The primary action of insulin is to promote the entry into the cells
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Glucose
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Oral antidiabetic agents are used to treat what type of diabetes
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Type II diabetes mellitus
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Oxytocin is mostly manufactured by what
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Hypothalamus
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What hormones increase the levels of calcium in the blood
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Parathyroid hormone
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What hormones lowers the levels of calcium in the blood
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Calcitonin
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Epinephrine is commonly used to treat
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Cardiac arrest
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What hormones helps maintain the level of glucose in the blood
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Glucagon
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The most dangerous adverse effect of insulin therapy is
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Hypoglycemia
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What oral hypoglycemic agent,except for what
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Salmon (Calcimar)
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What agents inhibits the synthesis of thyroid hormone
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Propylthiouracil
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Hypothalamic hormones stimulate the pituitary gland to synthesize and releases what
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Trophic
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Hypothyroidism in adults results in what conditions
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Myxedema
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Antidiabetic hormone is released when the body is
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Low on water
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What is the site for secretion of estrogen
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Ovary
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What regulates testosterone production
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FSH and LH
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Naturally occurring estrogens does not include what
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Norethindrone
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Anabolic steroids are used by young athletic individuals to promote an increase in
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Muscle mass
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Estrogen is contraindicated in which cancer
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Breast
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The greatest amount of progesterone is secreted during the week after
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Ovulation
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High doses of progesterone suppress what organs to prevent ovulation
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Pituitary gland
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Indication of progestreone
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Irregular uterine bleeding
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Progesterone can cause changes in
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Vision
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Most oral contraceptives are taken daily for how many days
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21
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The classic adverse effects associated with birth control drugs are nausea,weight gain, and breast tenderness, what substances that they contain
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Progesterone
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Uterine stimulants are know as what substances
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Oxytocic
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Higher doses of anabolic steroids used in women may be associate with adverse effects
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Virilization
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What promotes milk ejection (letdown) reflex in nursing mothers
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Oxandrolone (Oxandrin)
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What agents is used as a uterine relaxant
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Ritodrine (Yutopar)
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What antimicrobial commonly is used to treat syphilis
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Penicillin
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Genital warts may be caused by what microorganisms
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A virus
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What trade name of progesterone
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Gesterol
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Herbals such as ephedra and mahuang may interact with ocytocic drugs, causing
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Hypertension
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Uterine relaxants are used in what conditions
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To delay preterm labor in pregnancies of greater that 20 weeks
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Estradiol
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Delestrogen
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Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
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Provera
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Norethindrone acetate
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Norlutate
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Norethindrone
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Norlutin
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Conjugated estrogen
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Premarin
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Finasteride
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Proscar
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Stanozolol
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Winstrol
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Methyltestoterone
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Android
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Terbutaline
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Brethine
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Ritodrine
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Norlutate
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