Endocrine Disorders Quiz Questions
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Can you answer these endocrine disorders quiz questions? Take this health care quiz and test your knowledge on the endocrine disorder and the hormones that affect your body on a daily basis. This system has effects on growth and development, metabolism, sexual function, and mood. If your hormone levels get too high or too low, you may have an endocrine disease or disorder. Educate yourself more with this quiz now. Let's go!
- 1.This results from an iodine-deficient diet, which causes hyperplasia or overgrowth of the thyroid gland.....
- A.
Goiter
- B.
Cretinism
- C.
Tetany
- D.
None of these
- 2.It results from a deficiency of insulin; the person becomes hyperglycemic and glucosuric.
- A.
Addison's Disease
- B.
Diabetes Mellitus
- C.
Cretinism
- D.
Tetany
- 3.The condition that is due to a deficiency of adrenal cortical steroids.
- A.
Pheochromocytoma
- B.
Giantism
- C.
Cretinism
- D.
Addison's Disease
- 4.It results from a deficiency of ADH that causes the person to urinate up to 25 liters of pale urine per day...
- A.
Acromegaly
- B.
Myxedema
- C.
Diabetes Insipidus
- D.
Cretinism
- 5.The condtiton that is treated with replacement doses of insulin....
- A.
Diabetes Insipidus
- B.
Diabetes Mellitus
- C.
Grave's Disease
- D.
None of these
- 6.The adult form of hypothyroidism that is treated with thyroid hormone....
- A.
Myxedema
- B.
Tetany
- C.
Acromegaly
- D.
Giantism
- 7.Antithyroid drugs and surgery are used to treat this form of hyperthyroidism....
- A.
Addison's Disease
- B.
Pheochromocytoma
- C.
Grave's Disease
- D.
Giantism
- 8.An infant born with a deficiency of thyroid hormones develops this condition, characterized by a severe delay in both physical and mental development...
- A.
Acromegaly
- B.
Cretinism
- C.
Giantism
- D.
None of these
- 9.The condition that is caused by hypersecretion of growth hormone in an adult (after fusion of the epiphyseal discs)
- A.
Giantism
- B.
Cretinism
- C.
Grave's Disease
- D.
Acromegaly
- 10.The condition that is caused by hypersecretion of somatotropic hormone in a child....
- A.
Myxedema
- B.
Dwarfism
- C.
Giantism
- D.
None of these
- 11.The condition that is caused by hyposecretion of somatotropic hormone in a child...
- A.
Giantism
- B.
Dwarfism
- C.
Acromegaly
- D.
Tetany
- 12.The condition that results from a tumor of the adrenal medulla, which causes a very high (and dangerous) blood pressure....
- A.
Grave's Disease
- B.
Pheochromocytoma
- C.
Cushing's Syndrome
- D.
None of these
- 13.Describes the bulging or protruding eyes that characterize hyperthyroidism....
- A.
Exophthalmos
- B.
Goiter
- C.
Acromegaly
- D.
Grave's Disease
- 14.A person who takes high doses of steroids over an extended period of time will develop this group of signs and symptoms...
- A.
Diabetes mellitus
- B.
Diabetes insipidus
- C.
Grave's Disease
- D.
Cushing's Syndrome
- 15.If untreated, this deficiency disease will progress to adrenal shock...
- A.
Cushing's Syndrome
- B.
Grave's Disease
- C.
Addison's Disease
- D.
Tetany
- 16.If untreated, this condition progresses to adrenal shock...
- A.
Giantism
- B.
Addison's Disease
- C.
Exophthalmos
- D.
None of these
- 17.If untreated, this condition progresses to ketoacidosis...
- A.
Diabetes Mellitus
- B.
Grave's Disease
- C.
Acromegaly
- D.
None of these
- 18.Characterized by sustained muscle contraction and an inability to ventilate (breathe)...
- A.
Cretinism
- B.
Myxedema
- C.
Cretinism
- D.
Tetany
- 19.Requires replacement doses of steroids, especially mineralocorticoid....
- A.
Addison's Disease
- B.
Cushing's Syndrome
- C.
Grave's Disease
- D.
Cretinism
- 20.Requires replacement doses of T3 and T4.....
- A.
Myxedema and Dwarfism
- B.
Myxedema and Cretinism
- C.
Myxedema and Tetany
- D.
None of these
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