Starvation – lengthy and continuous deprivation of food.   Causes are lack of available food, failure to ingest, failure to digest, or failure to absorb.

Anorexia – is a failure to ingest food

Anorexia Nervosa – is a psychological disorder where there is a failure to ingest food.

Emaciation – extremely thin

Cachexia – is an appearance of ill health characterized by Weight loss, wasting of muscle, loss of appetite, and general debility that can occur during a chronic disease.

Inanition – exhaustion due to lack of nourishment

Hyperalimaentation – super fooding.   IV or NG tube feeding that provides patients with essential nutrients when they are unable to feed themselves.

Avitaminosis – Is the absence of 1 or more essential vitamins

Vitamins – organic, noncalorgenic food substances that are required in small amounts for certain metabolic functions and that cannot be manufactured independently by the body.

Fat Soluble Vitamins – A, D, E, K

Water soluble vitamins – act as coenzymes for metabolic functions.   B-complex vitamins, Vitamin C

Beriberi – a disease caused by a deficiency of thiamin, which is characterized by neurological symptoms, cardiovascular abnormalities, and edema

Neuropathy – abnormality of the nervous system

Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome – wet brain.   A brain disorder involving loss of specific brain functions due to lack of thiamin.

Scurvy – a disease caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C, characterized by spongy and bleeding gums, bleeding under the skin, and extreme weakness.

GTT – cancer of the uterine wall

Colostrom – thin, yellowish fluid secreted by the mammary glands at the time after childbirth.   It precedes the production of true milk.   It primes the infants digestive tract.

Nurture – the fulfillment of a child’s basic needs of touch, food, language, and modeling (learning by watching)

Dwarfism – arrested growth caused by too little pituitary secretion

Gigantism – excessive growth caused by a hyper stimulation of the pituitary gland

Acromegaly – a chronic disease of adults marked by the enlargement of the bones, extremities, face, jaw that is caused by over activity of the pituitary gland.   Often cause by chromophobe adenoma or basophilic adenoma, which are benign tumors of the pituitary gland

chromophobe adenoma – benign tumor of the pituitary gland

basophilic adenoma - benign tumor of the pituitary gland

TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) – hormone produced by the pituitary gland and it secretes thyroxin, which controls metabolism.

Labile – cells that are in a constant state of reproduction, highly radiosensitive, most carcinoma’s are in this group ( Hemopoietic cells [RBC’s, WBC’s] , epithelial, sperm)

Stable – don’t normally reproduce but if they have to they will (most sarcoma’s are from this group (osteoblasts, hepatice cells)