Endocrine

Question 1

Name all the Endocrine producing glands 12

Answer 1

• Hypothalamus
• Pineal Gland
• Pituitary Gland
• Thyroid gland
• Parathyroid gland
• Thymus
• Heart
• Adrenal gland
• Kidney
• GI tract
• Testes/ovaries
• Adipose tissue

Question 2

Pituitary Glnad (Hypophysis)

Answer 2

• Posterior pituitary (Neurohypophysis)
  
  • Nervous tissue
• Anterior Pituitary (Adenohyposphysis)
  
  • Glandular Tissue
• Hypothalamo-hypophyseal portal system
  
  • portal veins shunt blood carrying regulatory hormones from hypothalamus to anterior pituitary gland
• Sits on Stella Turcica

Question 3

Thyroid gland

Answer 3

• Butterfly shaped
• Anterior to upper tracheal rings, inferior to larynx
• Largest pure endocrine gland
• 2 lobes connected by the isthmus
• Arteries supply blood, veins drain

Question 4

Adrenal (Suprarenal) Glands

Arteries

Answer 4

• Arterial supply
  
  • Superior suprarenal arteries (branch of inferior phrenic artery)
  • Middle suprarenal artery (Branch of abdominal aorta)
  • Inferior Suprarenal artery (Branch of renal)

Question 5

Adrenal Gland

Venous draingae

Answer 5

• Venous drainage
  
  • Right suprarenal vein (drains into inferior vena cava)
  • Left suprarenal vein
    
    • drains into left renal vein)

Question 6

Adrenal Gland lymphatic drainage

Answer 6

Superior lumbar nodes

Question 7

Adrenal Gland innervation

Answer 7

Preganglionic sympathetic fibers travel in the splanchnic nerves and the celiac plexus

Postganglionic sympathetic cell bodies form the substance of the adrenal medulla

Question 8

Adrenal glands composed of

Answer 8

Adrenal cortex

adrenal medulla