Hypofunction

As hypofunction in which is Medicine a reduced performance of an organ called, thus a sub-function , d. H. an expression or a value below the normal value . The opposite is hyperfunction .

Examples for this are:

• Hypotension : low blood pressure.
• in the thyroid : hypothyroidism , congenital hypothyroidism , Pickardt syndrome (tertiary hypothyroidism)
• in the parathyroid glands : hypoparathyroidism
• in the gonads : hypogonadism , hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
• in the adrenal cortex : adrenal insufficiency
• Osteopetrosis : caused by a hereditary underactive function of cells that break down bone ( osteoclasts )

See also

• List of endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases according to ICD-10
• Hypocalcemia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hypofunction . Duden German universal dictionary. 2015. Accessed July 12, 2015.