Question

Gull’s disease is related to deficient working of
A) Thyroid
B) Parathyroid
C) Adrenal cortex
D)Gonads

Answer 1

Hint: The endocrine system comprises endocrine glands that secrete hormones released directly to the bloodstream. These released hormones involved in many functions inside the body and any imbalance in the hormone cause many severe diseases.

Complete answer:
To answer this question, we have to first know about the endocrine disorders. The endocrine system involves the maintenance of many important functions of the body that includes the ability of the body to change calories into energy and many other functions. It also influences the heart beat, growth of tissues and bones, pregnancy. It plays a very important role in the control of diabetes, growth disorders, thyroid diseases, sexual dysfunction, and many other hormone related disorders. The endocrine disease occurs when the hormones produced by the glands are too high or too low or we can call it hormonal imbalance. This disease can also be caused due to the lesion development like any tumors or nodules in the endocrine system that affects the hormone levels. The endocrine disease includes; adrenal insufficiency, cushing’s disease, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and gigantism.

Now, Gull’s disease is caused due to the degeneration of thyroid with hypothyroidism. A person with hypothyroidism has low sweating, dry skin, cold hypersensitivity, weight gain, constipation, easy fatigability, mental dullness, carotinura, longer reflex time, and excessive menses. In severe condition symptoms like dizziness, thick speech, congestive heart failure, deafness, hypothermia, pernicious anemia, and decreased libido are also observed.

Hence, the correct option is ‘A’. Thyroid.

Note:Gull's disease, also known as Myxoedema, occurs due to deficiency of thyroid hormone in adults, after the mental and physical growth is complete.Females more frequently affected than males by this disease.