Diseases and Disorders
Glands
Endocrine System
Hormones
Miscellaneous
100

What disease involves people who can't produce enough insulin

What is Diabetes?

100
Dual-purpose gland with both digestive and endocrine functions; produces insulin
What is the pancreas?
100

The number of glands in the endocrine system

What is 8 glands?

100
Slows down the loss of calcium from the bones into the blood
What is T4 hormone?
100
One of the 2 endocrine glands located in the neck
What is the thyroid or parathyroid?
200
What disease involves enlargement of the outer layer of the adrenal gland
What is Cushing's syndrome?
200
Gland that controls our sleep-wake cycle
What is the pineal gland?
200
Organ that regulates the pituitary gland
What is the hypothalamus?
200
Involved in the body's sleep-wake cycle
What is melatonin?
200
2 endocrine glands that are located in the brain
What are the pituitary and pineal?
300

A deficiency of thyroid hormones, which can disrupt such things as heart rate, body temperature, and all aspects of metabolism. This condition is most prevalent in older women.

What is a Hypothyroidism?

300
This produces adrenaline (epinephrine), aldosterone, and cortisol
What is the adrenal gland?
300

What are often referred to as "chemical messengers" that are carried throughout the body by the bloodstream, and coordinates/directs specific activities of the body.

What are hormones?

300
Clusters of cells found in the pancreas that secrete hormones
What are Islets of Langerhans?
300
What gland is located above the kidneys?
What are the adrenal glands?
400

A disease that occurs when the adrenal cortex is damaged (located just above your kidney), and the adrenal glands don't produce enough of the steroid hormones cortisol and aldosterone. Symptoms include fatigue, nausea, darkening of the skin, and dizziness upon standing.

What is Addison's disease?

400
Controls the amount of calcium in the blood
What is the parathyroid glands?
400

A cell, a group of cells, or an organ that produces a secretion for use elsewhere in the body.

What is a gland?

400
Main controller of calcium in the blood; secreted by the parathyroid gland
What is PTH (parathyroid hormone)
400
Two systems the pancreas is involved in
What are the digestive and endocrine systems?
500

A sleep disorder in which you have trouble falling and/or staying asleep. This condition can be short-term (acute) or long-term (chronic). 

What is Insomnia?

500
Which gland controls many functions such as metabolism, growth + development, and heart functions
What is the thyroid gland?
500
Definition of the Endocrine System
What is "maintains and regulates many functions in the body"?
500

What are the two hormones that are produced in the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland? 

What is ADH and oxytocin?

500
The "Master Gland"
What is the pituitary
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