Anatomy 2Nd Semester Final Chapter 17 Test

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Hypersecretion of the thyroid gland

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Graves Disease

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Hyposecretion of growth hormone

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Pituitary dwarfism

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Hyposecretion of the pancreas

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diabetes mellitus

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Hyposecretion of the adrenal gland

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Addisons disease

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Hypersecretion of growth hormone

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Acromegaly

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Hyposecrtion of the thyroid (adult)

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Myxdema

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Hypersecrtion of the adrenal cortex

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Cushing's disease

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Hypersecrtion of growth hormone

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Giantism

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Hyposecrtion of the thryoid in infants

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Cretinism

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The Master Gland, produces hormones that stimulate other endocrine glands

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Pituitary

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Gland that controls fight, fright, or flight

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Adrenal Medulla

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Produces hormones that regulate glucose leves

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Pancreas

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Produces a hormone that controls blood levels of calcium and potassium by their removal from bone tissue

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Parathryoid

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Produces the bodys major metabolic hormones

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Thyroid

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Gluconeogenesis occurs in the liver due to the action of..

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Cortisol

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Normal development of the immune response is due in part to hormones produced by the

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Thymus gland

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All of the protein or amino-acid based hormones exert their effects through intracellular..

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second messengers

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Chemical substances that regulate the metabolic function of other cells in the body are called

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hormones

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Endocrine glands have three different mechanicsms to stimulate themselves; list them

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Humoral, hormonal, neural

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Tropic hormones...

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include ACTH and TSH

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Growh hormone promotes..

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long bone growth during the formative years

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Oxytocin release is an example of..

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positive feedback control mechanism

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Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is inhibited by..

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alcohol

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The ability of a specific tissue or organ to respond to the prescence of a hormone is dependant on the prescence of

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the appropriate receptors on the cells of the trager tissue or organ

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Insulin is synthesized by the beta cells of the pancreas, this hormone is release when

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the bodys glucose levels rise

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Steroid hormones exert their action by

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Enetering the nucleus of a cell and initiating or alterting the expression of a gene

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When fight or flight is necessary, a hormone that is released dring the alarm phase of the general adaptation system is

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Epinephrine

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One of th least complicated of the endocrine control systems directly repsonds to changing blood levels of ions and nutrients. What describes this mechanism?

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Humoral Stimulation

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Adenohypophysis is reggered to as the master endocrine gland, why?

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produces regulate the release of hormones by other endocrine glands

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Major targets of GH

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bones and skeletal muslce

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Parathryoid maintains blood calcium, this is accomplised through targeting..

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the bone and activating osteoclasts so that calcium is released

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Which organ is reponsible for synthesizing ANP

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The heart

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Mineralocorticoid is to aldosterone as gluccocorticoid is to

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cortisol

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What is associated with the action of steroids on cells?

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A hormone-recepter complex interatction directly with the cells dna

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ACTH is secreted by the

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posterior pituitary

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Aldosterone functions to...

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increase sodium resorption

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What organ has no hormone production

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Liver

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A man isnt synthesizing enough FSH and may be unable to father a child, why?

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FSH stimulates sperm production in testes

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Gluccocorticoids enable the body to deal with stress by increasing

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blood glucose, fatty acid, and amino acid levels and enhancing blood pressure

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___are hormones synthesized from cholesterol

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peptieds

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Alpha islet cells produce

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Glucagon

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As a result of stress, the adenohypohysis releases

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adrenocortiotropic hrmone

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Intestnal gastrin does or does no stimulate the stomach to digest it's contents?

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Does NOT

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What is released by the kidneys as a result of hypoxia?

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erythropoiten

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The posterior pituituary stores hormones for later released that are produced by the

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hypothalamus

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Vitamin D is an activated form of a hormone produced by the skin called

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Cholecalciferol

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TSH causes the relases of what other hormone?

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Thryroxine

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What influences the sex drive of both sexes and helps form sperm in males?

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Testosterone