Diseases
This is a hormonal medical condition which causes cysts in the ovaries.
What is PCOS.
The butterfly shaped gland in your neck.
Thyroid.
where is the thyroid located?
Neck.
How does the endocrine system respond to stress?
Produces more hormones in response to physical and emotional wellbeing.
This is a disease that affects the pancreas ability to produce insulin by attacking and destroying the insulin producing cells.
What is type 1 diabetes.
The small gland located on top of your kidneys
Adrenal gland
Where is the hypothalamus located?
In the base of the brain.
What does the pineal gland produce?
Melatonin.
This disease causes inflammation of the pancreas.
What is pancreatitis.
The hormone that triggers the body’s fight or flight response, also known as adrenaline
Epinephrine.
Where is the pineal gland located?
The middle of the brain.
True or false the endocrine system can maintain body temperature?
True.
What is the most common symptom of thyroid cancer.
a lump or swelling in the throat.
Hormone produced by the pancreas that regulates blood sugar.
Insulin.
Where in the pituitary gland?
It is located at the base of the brain.
What doe adrenal glands produce.
Adrenaline.
The condition when the thyroid gland makes too much thyroxine hormone.
hyperthyroidism.
The gland that controls all of the other glands.
Pituitary gland.
where is the parathyroid?
Next to the two thyroid glands.
Can you live without your pituitary gland? True or false?
True. You can take hormone replacements.