metabolic disease
Body chemistry disorder
A metabolic disease is a disorder that disrupts the body's chemical processes for converting food into energy and building tissue.
Some are inherited conditions where the body lacks enzymes to process certain substances: phenylketonuria, Tay-Sachs disease.
Others develop over time: diabetes and thyroid disorders are metabolic diseases.
The category spans conditions affecting how the body handles sugars, fats, proteins, or minerals.
- obesityExcess body fat condition
- fatty liverLipid accumulation in hepatocytes
- blood sugarCirculating glucose level
- hyperthyroidismOverproduction of metabolic hormones
- hemochromatosisHereditary iron storage disease
thyroid disorder · hyperlipidemia · acromegaly · vitamin D deficiency · scurvy · gout · born with it · rickets · porphyria · pancreatitis · insulin resistance · liver cirrhosis · kidney stones · cholestasis · cystic fibrosis · pellagra · beriberi · anorexia nervosa
- Biomedicineanatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, immunology
- pathologycancer, infection, tumor, lesion, lesions
- Livestock Diseasesbloat, hoof and mouth, anthrax, ketosis, brucellosis
- ancient diseasestuberculosis, leprosy, syphilis, malaria, rickets
- brain metabolismglycolysis, lactate, pyruvate, mitochondria, oxygen consumption
- Mitochondriamitochondria, ATP, inner membrane, cristae, intermembrane space
metabolic diseaseinfectious disease
Pathogen-caused transmissible ailment
communicable disease · contagious disease · traumatic injury · physical trauma · bacterial infection
metabolic, metabolism, metabolize, metabolized, metabolizing, metabolizes, metabolite, metabolites, anabolic