Endocrine System Quiz

• Thyroxin


  Thyroid gland secretes what hormone?
• Parathormone


  What hormone does the parathyroid secretes?
• Insulin


  Pancreas secretes what hormone - essential for normal glucose metabolism
• Adrenalin


  Referred to as "emergency hormone" situated on top of the kidneys
• Testosterone


  Secreted by the interstitial cells, that stimulates the appearance of the secondary sexual characteristics of the male:
• Glands


  Cells or groups specialized in structure and function to produce substance needed in bodily processes:
• Exocrine


  Glands of external secretion which discharge their products through ducts:
• Endocrine


  Glands of internal secretion which discharge their products directly into the blood stream:
• Pituitary Gland


  Hyposecretion of the growth hormone - Dwarfism and Hypersecretion of result in gigantism. GH belongs to what gland?
• Oxytocin


  Released during childbirth. It stimulates powerful contractions of the uterine muscle during labor, sexual relations and during breast feeding:
• Adrenalin


  Medulla secretes this, sometime referred to as emergency hormone, which increases all metabolic activities, an action similar to that sympathetic nervous system
• Follicle stimulating hormone


  Stimulating hormone that helps for the development of the ovaries; produces estrogen and eggs are readied for ovulation
• LH


  Hormone that triggers ovulation of an egg from the female ovary causes ruptured follicle to produce progesterone
• Insulin


  Islet of langerhans are very small bodies floating in the pancreas. These secrete hormone called:
• Goiter


  An iodine deficiency causing less thyroxine to be released by the thyroid gland thus causing low metabolic rate, weight gain, slow pulse, and puffy:
• Thyroxin


  Responsible for the regulation of the rate oxidation within the cells:
• Parathormone


  Responsible for maintaining normal phosporus metabolism:
• Androsterone


  Affects male sex hormone activity:
• Somatotropin


  Responsible for growth hormone:
• Vassopressin


  Makes the walls of blood vessels contract, thus raising the blood pressure