NURSING 3212-SPRING 2021
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, CONCEPTS
• CELLULAR REGULATION
EXEMPLAR- HYPOTHYROIDISM
INTERRELATED CONCEPTS
NUTRITION
GAS EXCHANGE
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, TERMINOLOGY TO KNOW
• EUTHYROID • HYPOTHYROIDISM
• EXOPHTHALMOS • MYXEDEMA COMA (HYPOTHYROID
• GRAVES'S DISEASE CRISIS)
• PRETIBIAL MYXEDEMA
• HASHIMOTO THYROIDITIS (HT)
• TETANY
• HYPERPARATHYROIDISM
• THYROID STORM(THYROID CRISIS
• HYPERTHYROIDISM
(THYROTOXICOSIS) • THYROIDITIS
• HYPERPARATHYROIDISM
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, THYROID GLAND
• LARGEST ENDOCRINE GLAND
• BUTTERFLY SHAPED
• LOCATE IN LOWER NECK (ANTERIOR TO TRACHEA)
• 2 LATERAL LOBES CONNECTED BY ISTHMUS
• HIGH BLOOD FLOW
• 2 PAIRS OF PARATHYROID GLANDS
• THYROID AND PARATHYROID GLAND INTEGRAL TO NORMAL BODY
FUNCTIONS
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