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Diseases » Pancreas conditions » Glossary

Glossary for Pancreas conditions

Abdominal pain: A condition which is characterized by the sensation of pain that is located in the abdomen
Acute Pancreatitis: Sudden severe inflammation of the pancreas causing digestive complaints.
All Disease Categories: All major disease categories
Chest pain: Pain in the chest area.
Chronic Pancreatitis: Chronic ongoing inflammation of the pancreas causing digestive complaints.
Cystic Fibrosis: Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease affecting the exocrine (mucus) glands of the lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines, causing progressive disability due to multisystem failure.
Diabetes: Failing or reduced ability of the body to handle sugars.
Diabetes Insipidus: Rare pituitary disorder often affecting the kidneys.
Endocrine disorders: Any disorder that affects the endocrine system
Endocrine pancreatic cancer: Any disease that affects the endocrine pancreas
Gastrinoma: Rare tumors secreting the digestive hormone gastrin.
Gestational diabetes: Diabetes that occurs in pregnant women, usually resolving after birth.
Glucagonoma: Rare cancer of the glucagon-producing pancreas cells.
Hemochromatosis: Excess of iron leading to problems with joints, liver, heart and pancreas.
Hyperinsulinemia: High insulin levels in the blood
Impaired glucose tolerance: Mild glucose metabolism problems not severe enough to be called diabetes.
Insulin Resistance: The resistance of the body to insulin
Insulinoma: A rare form of pancreatic cancer that causes excessive secretion of the hormone insulin. A relatively small number of cases are malignant.
Knee pain: Pain in or around the knee joint
MODY diabetes: Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young affects approximately one or two per cent of people who have diabetes, and may often go unrecognised in its early stages. It is a form of diabetes that develops before the patient reaches 25. It also runs in families, and can pass from one generation to the next. MODY does not always require insulin treatment.
Malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus: Diabetes mellitus that is caused by a chronic malnutrition state
Multiple endocrine neoplasia: A group of conditions that is characterised by the hyperplasia and hyperfunction of two or more glands of the endocrine system
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1: Rare inherited disease causing tumors in multiple glands
Pancreatic Islet Cell Cancer: A malignant carcinoma that is located in the islet cells of the pancreas
Pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas
Pancreatitis: Inflammation of the pancreas causing digestive complaints.
Type 1 diabetes: Severe insulin-treated diabetes typically occurring in young people.
Type 2 diabetes: Most common diabetes in adults, usually progressing slowly, mostly treated without insulin at diagnosis.
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome: A rare disorder where excessive levels of the hormone gastrin are released into the stomach which increases stomach acidity which results in peptic ulcer development. A hormone secreting pancreatic or duodenal tumor is usually the cause.