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The endocrine system is made up of glands that release hormones into the blood.

• True

• False

Are chemicals that travel in the blood and cause changes in different parts of the body

• Hormones
• Glands
• Parathyroid 
• Adrenal Gland 

Controls long term changes such as growth

• limbic system

• endocrine system

• nervous system

• temporal lobe

What is the function of the endocrine system?

• to filter and eliminate the waste from the blood

• to secrete hormones into the bloodstream to regulate body activities

• to provide structure and support for the body

• to defend the body against pathogens

What are glands?

• Organs that make and excrete waste

• Organs that make and release secretions

• Organs that make and release white blood cells

• Organs that make and excrete carbon dioxide

What is endocrinology?

• Study of organs that receive hormones

• Study of organs that secrete (release) hormones

• A person who studies organs that receive hormones

• A person who studies organs that secrete hormones

Adrenomegaly?

• Enlarged adrenals

• Small adrenals

• No adrenals

• Too many adrenals

Thryomegaly?

• Enlarged thymus

• Small thymus

• Enlarged thyroid

• Small thyroid

Hypoparathyroidism

Hypo-

Parathyroid/o

-ism

• Lowered amount of thyroid function

• Higher amount of thyroid function

• Lowered amount of parathyroid function

• Higher amount of parathyroid function

Exocrine

• circulate in the bloodstream and control the actions of certain cells or organs

• gland that makes substances such as sweat, tears, saliva, milk, and digestive juices, and releases them through a duct or opening to a body surface

• tissue that makes and releases hormones that travel in the bloodstream and control the actions of other cells or organ

• the control of hormone release in response to changes in extracellular fluids such as blood or the ion concentration in the blood