Medical Terminology / Unit 13 MedTerm 0872 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hypothyroidism
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The idea
Hypothyroidism is a condition of deficient thyroid gland activity.
In practice
Only the prefix changes between this term and its opposite.
Where people slip
The hyper and hypo pattern runs through the whole endocrine unit.
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