11.3 Flashcards
What system is responsible for producing hormones
Endocrine system
What gland secrete hormones to the bloodstream
Endocrine glands
What kind of glands excrete any thing out of the bloodstream?
Exocrine glands
What are the messengers produced by these glands and they are also known as stimulators
Hormones
What gland produces hormones that regulate growth
Pituitary gland
What is the growth hormone and is also Part of pituitary gland?
Somatotropin
Pituitary gland hormones that affect the development of reproductive organs
Gonadotropins
What is an endocrine gland that regulates the rate of chemicals in the body cells?
Thyroid glands
What is a thyroid hormone that regulates your metabolism?
Thyroxine
What is a hormone which increases the stage of calcium in the bone
Calcitonin
what is the condition in Wichita child does not grow in the right way
Cretinism
what is caused by deficient thyroid in adulthood?
Hypothyroidism
What is an overactive thyroid condition?
Hyperthyroidism
Swelling in the neck caused by a lack of iodine
Simple goiter
What glands produce the pancreatic hormones, insulin, and glucagon which regulate the Bodies use of blood glucose and contains clumps of endocrine glands
Islets Of Langerhans
pancreatic hormone that signals deliver in the muscle to remove it from the muscle and turn it into glucagon
Insulin
pancreatic hormone that signals the liver to Convert glucagon back into glucose
Glucagon
Disease in which sugar accumulates into the blood, instead of being stored as glycogen
diabetes mellitus
What Endocrine gland that sits on the kidneys and is a hormone known as Fight or flight
Adrenal glands
adrenaline in its a hormone that enters the bloodstream if you are excited or alarmed
Epinephrine
What is the special fluid that is produced by the adrenal glands?
Steroids
What glands are between the cerebral hemisphere that regulates sleeping and Waking
Pineal gland
