Endocrine
The gland that produces parathyroid hormone.
What is the parathyroid gland?
The male gamete
What is sperm?
The female gamete
What are eggs or ova?
The events that occur from fertilization until the infant is born; usually lasts 9 months in humans.
What is pregnancy?
The best organ in the human body.
What is the kidney?
The three signs of diabetes mellitus are polyuria, polyphagia, and this.
What is polydipsia?
The tubules in the teste that are the site of sperm production.
What are seminiferous tubules?
The innermost layer of the uterus where a fertilized egg will implant.
What is the endometrium?
When the sperm's chromosomes combine with those of a secondary oocyte to form a zygote.
What is fertilization?
The cardinal sign of inflammation other than pain, swelling, and redness.
What is heat?
The hormone that has a stimulus of ACTH, is made in the zona fasciculata, and has a prime metabolic effect of gluconeogenesis.
What is cortisol?
Tube sperm travels through after leaving epididymis.
What is ductus (vas) deferens?
The structure that forms from the ruptured follicle after ovulation; secretes progesterone.
What is the corpus luteum?
During development, the fluid-filled hollow sphere that contains trophoblast cells and the inner cell mass.
What is a blastocyst?
The antibody found in type A blood.
What is B antibody?
The type of cells that make epinephrine and norepinephrine.
What are chromaffin cells?
What is testosterone?
The molecule that is released from adipose tissue at puberty that decreases estrogen inhibition of GnRH.
What is leptin?
This molecule from the fetal lungs causes softening of the cervix.
What is surfactant protein A (SP-A)?
The third part of the alimentary canal.
What is the esophagus?
What is IP3?
During spermatogenesis, the name of the cell that has entered meiosis I but has not completed meiosis I.
What is primary spermatocyte?
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During the acrosomal reaction, enzymes from many sperm are released that digest holes in this structure.
What is the zona pellucida?
The 22nd question on the study guide.
Name the 4 cardinal signs of inflammation.