Exam 2 Terms

Secretes directly into ducts. Sweat, oil, mucus, digestive glands.

Secretes hormones into interstitial fluid. Pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pineal.

Hormones that don't circulate. Local.

Act on the same cell that secretes them.

Fat soluble. Steroid and thyroid hormones.

Connects Pituitary gland to hypothalamus

Antidiruretic Hormone. Reduces water loss by reabsorption of water from blood.

Stimulates uterine contraction and milk ejection.

Monitor blood osmotic pressure.

Basal Metobolic Rate.

Enlarged thyroid gland.

Secretes melatonin. Regulates body's biological clock.

Locally acting hormones. Effect target cells next to their location.

Large protein. Role in clotting.

Plasma proteins. Maintain osmotic pressure, exchange fluid across capillary walls.

Differentiate into each of the different types of stem cells.

In red bone marrow. Creates platelets.

Gives rise to lymphocytes and natural killer cells.

Catalyses the conversion of CO2 and water to carbonic acid.

Immature RBCs.

Production of RBCs.

Low oxygen concentration.

Injection when mother has Rh- blood and baby has Rh+ blood.

Amount of blood pumped out of ventricle in 1 beat.

Union of the branches of 2 or more arteries supplying the same region of the body.

How large, lipid-insoluble molecules cross capillary walls in vesicles.

As blood moves along the capillary, fluid moves out through its pores into the interstitial space. Pressure exerted by the blood will become lower as the blood moves along the capillary.

Vascular resistance is the opposition to blood flow due to friction between blood and the walls of blood vessels. Higher the resistance, lower the blood flow.

Pressure sensitive sensory neurons that monitor stretching of blood vessel walls and atria.

Low blood volume.

Fluid connective tissue made up of various cells and a plasma matrix.