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1
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What system is responsible for producing hormones

A

Endocrine system

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2
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What gland secrete hormones to the bloodstream

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Endocrine glands

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3
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What kind of glands excrete any thing out of the bloodstream?

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Exocrine glands

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What are the messengers produced by these glands and they are also known as stimulators

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Hormones

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5
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What gland produces hormones that regulate growth

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Pituitary gland

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What is the growth hormone and is also Part of pituitary gland?

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Somatotropin

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Pituitary gland hormones that affect the development of reproductive organs

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Gonadotropins

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What is an endocrine gland that regulates the rate of chemicals in the body cells?

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Thyroid glands

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What is a thyroid hormone that regulates your metabolism?

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Thyroxine

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10
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What is a hormone which increases the stage of calcium in the bone

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Calcitonin

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11
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what is the condition in Wichita child does not grow in the right way

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Cretinism

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what is caused by deficient thyroid in adulthood?

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Hypothyroidism

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13
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What is an overactive thyroid condition?

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Hyperthyroidism

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14
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Swelling in the neck caused by a lack of iodine

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Simple goiter

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What glands produce the pancreatic hormones, insulin, and glucagon which regulate the Bodies use of blood glucose and contains clumps of endocrine glands

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Islets Of Langerhans

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16
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pancreatic hormone that signals deliver in the muscle to remove it from the muscle and turn it into glucagon

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Insulin

17
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pancreatic hormone that signals the liver to Convert glucagon back into glucose

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Glucagon

18
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Disease in which sugar accumulates into the blood, instead of being stored as glycogen

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diabetes mellitus

19
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What Endocrine gland that sits on the kidneys and is a hormone known as Fight or flight

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Adrenal glands

20
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adrenaline in its a hormone that enters the bloodstream if you are excited or alarmed

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Epinephrine

21
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What is the special fluid that is produced by the adrenal glands?

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Steroids

22
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What glands are between the cerebral hemisphere that regulates sleeping and Waking

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Pineal gland

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