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Automatic Nerd Simulator (ANS)
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Is that the "Love" hormone or are you just happy to see me?
OMG "GHRH"
Term Germs
100

These are the two functional divisions of the autonomic nervous system.

What is sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?

100

This type of chemical messenger is secreted into the blood to target tissues.

What are hormones?

100

This gland releases antidiuretic hormone (ADH) that results in water retention.

What is the posterior pituitary gland?

100
This gland secrets epinephrine and norepinephrine.
What are adrenal glands?
100
A _____ is a bundle of axons that connect the CNS to sensory receptors, muscles, and glands.
What is a nerve?
200

True or False: The ANS is under conscious, voluntary regulation.

What is False?

200

Name 5 endocrine glands.

What are: hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, thymus, adrenals, ovaries, pineal, parathyroid, pancreas, & testes.

200

This hormone is known as the "love" hormone that results in uterine contraction and milk ejection from breasts.

What is oxytocin?

200
When secreted, this hormone acts to increase blood sugar levels.
What is glucagon?
200
_____ is the response referred to during physical exercise when the body shunts blood & nutrients to structures that are active and decreases the activity of non-essential organs.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
300

These are the targets or "effectors" of the ANS.

What are smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands?

300

These are the two, general chemical natures of hormones.

What is lipid-soluble and water-soluble?

300

These hormones regulate the production of gametes and reproductive hormones.

What is follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH)?

300
This gland is largely responsible for controlling blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
300
_____: when the number of receptors on a cell's membrane rapidly decreases after exposure to certain hormones.
What is down-regulation?
400

Pre-ganglionic neurons of the sympathetic NS are longer OR shorter than preganglionic neurons of the parasympathetic NS.

What is shorter?

400

In response to a rise in blood sugar the pancreas releases insulin. Likewise, low blood sugar levels result in glucagon release. What type of hormone secretion regulation is this?

What is humoral?

400

This gland, one of the largest in the body, secrets a hormone that increases metabolic rate in most cells of the body.

What is thyroid?

400
These hormones target most cells, aids in uterine development & function, and develops secondary sexual characteristics.
What is estrogen and progesterone?
400
_____ means "to secrete within"
What is endocrine?
500

This division of the ANS prepares the body for physical activity, stress, as well as helps maintain blood pressure.

What is the sympathetic NS?

500

More of these have to appear on the surface of cells to become more sensitive to a particular hormone.

What are hormone receptors?

500

This hormone is produced by parafollicular cells who's secretion is stimulated by increased blood calcium levels which leads to a decrease in blood Ca concentration.

What is calcitonin?

500
This gland is its largest in infancy and is involved in the development of the immune system.
What is the thymus?
500
Most hormones are regulated by a _____ feedback mechanism.
What is negative?