Any endocrine gland can cause disease by becoming either overactive or underactive

If an endocrine gland is overactive and is secreting too much hormone, which prefix would be used to build the name of the condition? prefix ________ + root [name of gland] + suffix -ism A) hyper-
B) hypo-
C) endo-
D) -emia


A

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