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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 9 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
When endocrine glands do not function because the pituitary gland does not produce hormones.
What is a pituitary disorder?
300
This produces adrenaline (epinephrine), aldosterone, and cortisol
What is the adrenal gland?
300
Over ___ hormones maintain and regulate numerous events throughout the body.
What is 100?
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
This percentage of the population will experience some sort of endocrine disorder in their lifetime
What is 10%?
400
Controls the amount of calcium in the blood
What is the parathyroid glands?
400
Type of hormone that is able to pass through the cell's membrane
What are fat soluble hormones?
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
This is the cause of most endocrine disorders
What is higher or lower levels of a particular hormone?
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
Definition of hormones
What is "the body's chemical messengers"?
500
The "Master Gland"
What is the pituitary