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Endocrine/Nervous sy
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Blood vessels | transport blood throughout the body |
| Bone marrow | produes new red and white blood cells |
| Lymph nodes | contain filtering tissue and a large number of lymph cells; swell up when you have an infection, and they fight bateria infections |
| Spleen | filters body looking for forign organs |
| Thymus | produces T-cell |
| Tosnsil | tissue that works as a germ catcher for your body |
| Adenoids | keep your body healthy by trapping viruses that you inhale. contain cells that make antibodies |
| Lymphatic vessels | a network of channels throuhout the body that carries lymphocytes to the lymphoid organs and bloodstream |
| The body's environment is always | changing |
| Some of these changes can be | harmful |
| The body is always_________ to these changes | adjesting |
| The two organ system that help the body ajust to changes are the _______ system and the _______ system | nervous and endocrine system |
| Endocrine gland makes chmicals called | hormones |
| Endocrine glands do not have ______ . Their hormones enpty into the | duct and bloodstream |
| Biood carries hormones to _______ of the body | all parts |
| Hormones help ragulate ______ reaction in the body | chemical |
| The male gonads are the | testes |
| The female gonads are the | ovaries |
| The body's most unique chemicals are | hormones |
| ______ is the hormone that regulates blood sugar | insulin |
| The hormone that help you when you are stressed is | endocrine |
| growth hormones | make your bones grow |
| insulin | allow cells to take sugar from your blood to use for fuel |
| sex hormones | change girl to a woman and a boy to a man |
| adrenaline | prepares the body for action |
| Pituitary | ACTH |
| thyrone | thyroxin |
| parthormone | parathormone |
| thymus | not certain |
| cortson | cortison |
| parcres | insulin |
| overis | estrogen |
| testes | testosterone |
| The ______ gland is often referred to as the master gland | pitutary |
| The hormones from the ______ gland aid in the body's defense against infections | thymus |
| When the body is under stress, the hormones from the _______ gland help meet the emergency | adrenal |
| The ______ produce insulin, which regulates glucose in the body | island of langerhams |
| Hormones from the ____ cause a young man's voice to become deeper | testes |
| Secretions of the ________ control the level of calcium in the bloodstream | parathyroid |
| The rate of metabolism is regulated by the secretions from the _____ gland | thyroid |
| Hormones from the ________ influence the devolpment of adult sex characteristics of young women | ovaries |
| Bayliss and Starling reasoned that something in the blood stimulated the pancreas; they called this a | chemical messenger |
| Pancreas is under dual control ________ and ____ | nervous and chemical |
| The whole family of chemical substance that regulate body organs are called | unknown |
| what does the pancreas do | collect pancreatic juice |
| why is the pancreas a duct gland | because it send juice |
| The little island of tissue are called | island of langerhans |
| what do the island of langerhans secret | insulin |
| Insulin is absorbed into the blood and | carrid to all parts of the body |
| The island of Langerhans are_______ gland | ductless |
| Insulin controls the use of ______.Without enough insulin the sugar metabolism is upset and _______ results | sugar and diabetes |
| Thyroid gland produces________ a hormone rich in iodine | thyroxin |
| what does Thyroxin do | regulates the rate the body perform its function |
| increase in thyroxin _______ __ metabolism a decrease | speeds up and slows it down |
| where is the Parathyoid found | in thyroid |
| what does parathormone do | regulates use of calcium |
| where is the aderal gland found | on top of the kindey |
| Adrenalin is often called | emergency hormone |
| what does adrenalin do to a body | prepares the body for danger |
| Hormones produced by the cortical cells regulate the ____ of ____ and _____ by the _____ | use of salt and water by the body |
| what cortical hormone is important to medicine | cortisome |
| where is the pituitary gland in a human | base of a brain |
| The pituitary gland is a duct or ductless gland | ductless gland |
| Posterior lobe of the pituitary gland produces several hormones, some regulate _______ _______ and control ________ of smooth muscle | blood presure and cmtouction |
| Anterior lobe of the pituitary gland produces a | rol hormones |
| tropic hormones do what | simutltes the adrental crtex to ser at hormones |
| pituitary gland is often called the | master gland |
| Endocrine system is ______ _____ system | a self regulater |
| No single gland is really ______ of the rest. They _____ _______ in a close-knit _______ harmony | independent,work together, inferclatea |
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