Endocrine
The disease characterized by a reduction in thyroid hormone production.
What is Goiter's?
The smallest blood vessels.
What are capillaries?
The gland that is both exocrine and endocrine.
What is the pancreas?
The stimulus for TSH.
What is TRH?
What type of pneumocytes are responsible for gas exchange?
The most common way CO2 is taken into the blood.
What is CO2 converting to bicarbonate?
What are valves?
The two cells that secrete hormones responsible for glucose homeostasis.
What are Alpha & Beta Cells?
The stimulus for GH.
What is GHRH?
What are the terminal bronchioles?
The vitamin that is important for normal clot formation.
What is Vitamin K?
The reason why arteries have thicker walls and higher blood pressure.
What is acommodate higher pressure?
What are the two nerves that function in every respiratory cycle.
What are the phrenic and intercostal nerves?
The cells that are located in the inner suprarenal medulla.
What are chromaffin cells?
The two characteristics of bronchiole structure.
1. Contain no cartilage
2. Dominated by smooth muscle
The structure that prevents the overstretching of valves.
The liver cells that are the equivalent to Phagocytic cells.
What are Kupffer cells?
The nontropic effects of GH.
What are increased growth at all cells and increased bone and muscle growth?
What are follicular cells?
The structures superior to the glottis that coordinate all their efforts to provide actual speech. (There are 4)
What are...
1. Muscles of pharynx
2. Soft palate
3. Tongue
4. Lips
The collective name for the papillary muscles and chordae tendineae.
The structure that helps stabilize the walls of the capillaries and controls their permeability.
What are pericytes?
The potent vasodilator released by the tunica intima.