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Endocrine System Function |
Regulates long-term changes in the body such as growth and development. It is made up of glands that release their products into the bloodstream. It also controls many of your bodies daily activities |
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Endocrine glands |
An endocrine gland produces and releases chemical substances directly into the bloodstream that signal changes in other parts of the body |
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Hormones |
Chemicals released in one part of the body that travels through the bloodstream and effect the activities of cells in other parts of the body
Chemical messengers The endocrine system is kept imbalanced by the coordinated action of various hormones |
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Gland |
An organ that produces and release the substance or secretion |
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Pituitary gland |
Controls other endocrine, gland, and regulates, growth rate, reproduction, and metabolism |
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Thymus gland |
Hormones released by the thymus gland, helped the immune system develop during childhood by adolescence this gland has shrunk considerably in size. |
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Hypothalamus gland |
Regulates, hunger, thirst, sleep, body temperature, and most involuntary mechanisms |
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Adrenal gland |
These glands release several hormones, such as adrenaline which triggers the bodies response to sudden stress( flight or fight, )other hormones, affect, salt, and water, balance in kidneys and generate |
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Pineal glands |
Releases a substance involved in rhythmic activities, such as the sleep awake cycle |
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Thyroid gland |
Regulates the bodies, overall metabolic rate and controls. Calcium levels in the bloodstream. |
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Thyroid gland |
Regulates the bodies, overall metabolic rate and controls. Calcium levels in the bloodstream. |
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Pancreas |
A large gland located behind the stomach that controls sugar levels in the bloodstream (insulin) |
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Ovary |
The female reproductive glands release, sex hormones that regulate egg, maturation and control changes in the females body at puberty(estrogen, progesterone) |
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Testicles |
The male reproductive gland really sucks for ones that regulate sperm production and controls changes in a males body at puberty(testosterone,) |
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The purpose of the reproductive system |
The reproductive system combines genetic information from both parents(in most animals) to produce new life forms. This this system produces sex cells(gametes) delivers them and protects developing fetus and until birth |
