Endocrine System
These body structures secrete hormones.
What are endocrine glands?
This master gland is about the size of a grape located at the base of the brain.
What is the pituitary gland?
This important hormone is secreted by the ovaries to stimulate female characteristics.
What is estrogen?
This hormone stimulates the thyroid gland to release thyroxine.
What is the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)?
This disorder's symptoms include high body temperature, increased heart rate and metabolism, exophthalmos/eyes bulging, and sometimes a goiter.
What is Graves' disease or hyperthyroidism?
The tissue or organ upon which a hormone acts.
What is a target tissue (organ)?
This is both an endocrine and exocrine gland, located behind the stomach.
What is the pancreas?
This hormone is associated with the "fight or flight" response.
What is epinephrine or adrenaline?
This hormone controls rate of metabolism.
What is thyroxine?
This disorders' symptoms include moon face, buffalo hump, bruise easily, hyperglycemia.
What is Cushing's Disease?
This brain structure links the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland.
What is the hypothalamus?
This butterfly shaped gland is located on the anterior side of the larynx, over the trachea.
What is the thyroid?
This hormone is responsible for growth and development and secreted by the anterior pituitary gland.
What is growth hormone (GH)?
This hormone regulates the formation and maintenance of the skeleton and lowers the blood calcium level.
What is calcitonin?
Complication when a diabetic person skips a meal, vomits, or administers too much insulin
What is Hypoglycemia or low blood glucose?
The gland that raises blood calcium level with its hormone.
What is parathyroid gland?
These four glands are pea-sized attached to the posterior side of the thyroid gland.
What are the parathyroid glands?
This hormone produces uterine contractions during labor.
What is oxytocin?
This hormone develops breast tissue and stimulates production of milk after childbirth.
What is prolactin?
This disorder's symptoms include polyuria/increased urination, polydipsia/increased thirst, polyphagia/increased appetite
What is diabetes mellitus?
These structures house the hormone producing cells of the pancreas.
What is are the Islets of Langerhans
This serves both the endocrine and lymphatic systems, located under the sternum, and is large during childhood.
What is the thymus?
The hormone insulin helps store and deliver this substance to the liver, while decreases its blood level
What is glucose?
This hormone acts on the kidney to increase the retention of water.
What is antidiuretic hormone (ADH) or vasopressin?
This disorder's symptoms include goiter, cold intolerance, and weight gain
What is hypothyroidism?