The Endocrine system and hormones vocabulary

A substance made in one cell or tissue causing change in another cell or tissue, somewhere else in the body.

• Hormone

• Gland

• Hypothalamus

• Pituitary gland

Organ that produces and releases chemicals that affect the activity of other tissues.

• Hormone

• Gland

• Hypothalamus

• Pituitary gland

Region of the brain that coordinates activities of the nervous and endocrine systems and that controls many body activities relates to homeostasis.

• Hormone

• Gland

• Hypothalamus

• Pituitary gland

Area in the middle of the brain that makes and releases hormones that control cell growth and osmoregulation, water levels in the blood.

• Releasing hormones

• Gland

• Hypothalamus

• Pituitary gland

Chemicals that stimulate other glands to release their hormones.

• Releasing hormones

• Gland

• Hypothalamus

• Pituitary gland