mod f unit 4 vocab

The principle mineralocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex is?

An enlargement of the extemities due to excessive growth hormone is called?

What glad is known as the master gland of the body?

What gland plays a vital role in metabloism and regulates the body's metabolic process?

Name a few true statements about epinephrine...

What is essential for maintenance of a normal level of blood sugar?

Prolactin is secreted by what?

A congenital deficiency in secretion of the thyroid hormone is called?

Medical term for softening of a gland

What is a disease of the adrenal gland

Condition of being abnormally small

Chronic disease of insulin deficiency or resistance

Condition of masculinity developed in a woman

Hormone produced by pituiatry gland that stimulates uterine contraction during child birth and stimulates the release of milk during nursing

A condition of being abnormally large

Tumor of a gland

Hormone produced by th hypothalamus and stored in the posterior lobe o the pituirary gland, also called antidiuretic hormone

A hormone produced by the adrenal medulla, used as a vascoconstrictor, cardiac stimulant, to relax broncho spasm, and to relieve allergic symptoms

Hormone produced by the testes; male sex hormone; important in development of secondary characteristics and masculinization.

Vital role in metablolism and regulates the body's metabolic processes, infulence bone and calcium metabolism, helps maintain plasma calcium homeostasis.

ACTH

BMR

GH

FSH

DM