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Week 10 Assignment

Human Health and Disease SCIE 254


Week 10 Assignment

Polyuria means having excessive urine. Polydipsia is an early symptom of both type I and

type II diabetes mellitus, as well as diabetes insipidus, in which an individual feels excessively

thirsty. Polyphagia is excessive eating from excess hunger or increased appetite, which a sign of

diabetes. Hypoglycemia is low blood glucose. Myxedema is an edema which often results from

hypothyroidism. A goiter is an enlarged thyroid, typically resulting from dietary insufficiency of

the essential mineral iodine. Ophthalmopathy (Grave’s Disease), is an autoimmune disorder that

causes inflammatory damage to the epithelial cells of the thyroid gland, causing uncontrolled

release of thyroid hormone.

Diabetic dermopathy is a skin condition usually found on the lower legs of people with

diabetes. Tetany is a prolonged contraction of a muscle after a single stimulus. Paresthesia is

altered sensation, a usually benign sensation of tingling, prickling, or numbness of a person’s

skin. Hemoglobin A1C is a laboratory test that gives an impression of the average glucose level

in the blood over the past 4 months. Anaerobic means without oxygen. Aerobic means requiring

oxygen. Indigenous flora are microorganisms that live as commensals on the skin and in the

alimentary tract. Commensal organisms are organisms that normally live on or in their host,

without causing disease, such as the bacteria located in the human skin and mouth.

A pathogen is a disease-causing organism. A latent period is the period in which the

organism is present in the host, but the host does not show signs of infection. A Vector an

organism that transports a pathogen to a host. A gram stain is a microbiology procedure used to

classify bacteria by morphology and characteristic staining of the cell wall with specific dyes. A

culture or bacteria culture is a colony of bacteria that grows on specialized media in the

laboratory. Susceptibility is the likelihood that you would be affected by something. A Prion

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