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Postmenopausal Atrophic Vaginitis Learning Center

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Atrophic vaginitis is typically caused by a decrease in estrogen. Estrogen levels normally drop after menopause. The disorder may occur in younger women who have had surgery to remove their ovaries. Some women develop the condition immediately aft...
Source:ADAM
Date:October 28, 2008
Ovarian hypofunction is reduced function of the ovaries (including decreased production of hormones.
Source:ADAM
Date:June 26, 2008
Over the course of evolution, the human mind and body have developed means of handling stressful situations. Over the short term, such stress response pathways are highly adaptive, allowing a person to manage his or her resources in order to navig...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that involves limiting the amount of food a person eats. It results in starvation and an inability to stay at the minimum body weight considered healthy for the person's age and height. Persons with this diso...
Source:ADAM
Date:January 20, 2009
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of body image. The name comes from two Latin words that mean "nervous inability to eat." In females who have begun...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of body image. The name comes from two Latin words that mean nervous inability to eat. In females who have begun t...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight and becoming fat. Because of this fear, the affected individual starves herself or himself, and the person's weight falls to about 85% (or less) of the ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation, unrealistic fear of weight gain, and conspicuous distortion of body image.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
A psychiatric disorder characterized by a distorted body image leading the person to believe that she is overweight even when she is dangerously underweight. Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder in which a person's (usually a girl's) distort...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an extreme reduction in food intake leading to potentially life-threatening weight loss. This syndrome is marked by an intense, irrational fear of weight gain or excess body fat, accompanied ...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
The eating disorder known as anorexia nervosa is commonly described as "self-starvation." Characteristics of the disorder include a refusal to maintain a minimally normal weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, a disturbed and unrealistic body ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Addison's disease is a disorder that occurs when the adrenal glands do not produce enough of their hormones.
Source:ADAM
Date:November 25, 2009
Addison's disease is a disorder involving disrupted functioning of the part of the adrenal gland called the cortex. This results in decreased production of two important chemicals (hormones) normally released by the adrenal cortex: cortisol and al...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Hypopituitarism is a condition in which the pituitary gland does not produce normal amounts of some or all of its hormones.
Source:ADAM
Date:March 18, 2008
Hypopituitarism is loss of function in an endocrine gland due to failure of the pituitary gland to secrete hormones which stimulate that gland's function. The pituitary gland is located at the base of the brain. Patients diagnosed with hypopituita...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Hypopituitarism, also known as the underactivity of the pituitary gland (an endocrine gland), is loss of function in the pituitary and the failure to secrete hormones that affect many of the body's functions. The pea-sized pituitary gland is locat...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Menopause is the transition period in a woman's life when her ovaries stop producing eggs, her body produces less estrogen and progesterone, and menstruation becomes less frequent, eventually stopping altogether.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 2, 2009
Menopause represents the end of menstruation . While technically it refers to the final menstrual period, it is not an abrupt event, but a gradual process. Menopause is not a disease that needs to be cured, but a natural life-stage transition. How...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Menopause represents the end of menstruation. While technically it refers to the final period, it is not an abrupt event, but a gradual process. Menopause is not a disease that needs to be cured, but a natural life-stage transition. However, women...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Medically, menopause is the cessation of menstruation and signifies the inability to bear children. It is determined as one year from the last menstrual cycle. Menopause is a natural life-stage transition. Medical events, like surgery or chemother...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Young girls start menstruating between the ages of eleven and thirteen, when their reproductive systems reach maturity. Women have regular menstrual cycles every twenty-eight days until about the age of fifty, at which time menstruation becomes ir...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
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