Endocrine System - Page 4
Questions
- If a gland is the combination of tissues that excretes something, then why is the liver considered as an organ, even though it excretes bile?
- How is glandular fever spread?
- How can you increase pituitary gland hormones?
- What are all the hormone secreting glands in the endocrine system?
- Are the mammary glands endocrine glands or exocrine glands?
- What organ functions as both an endocrine and exocrine organ?
- What are the main hormones in human body and what is the importance of these hormones in the body?
- How are glands are classified?
- What gland in the body secretes insulin?
- Can exocrine glands secrete both enzymes and hormones? Do endocrine glands release secretions into the blood?
- Where in the human body is the pituitary gland located?
- What is the primary function of the pituitary gland?
- Is parathormone an anterior pituitary hormone?
- Are tear glands part of the endocrine system?
- The posterior pituitary is not really an endocrine gland. Why not? What is it?
- Pituitary gland works under the influence of hypothalamus. Then why the name master gland for pituitary?
- Why does diabetes affect the feet? Once your sugars are under control, will your ability to heal at a normal pace come back?
- Which one of the following endocrine organs only stores hormones produced by the hypothalamus: the anterior pituitary, the posterior pituitary, the thyroid, the adrenal cortex, or the adrenal medulla?
- How many hormones are secreted by the thyroid gland and what are they?
- What gland secretes growth hormone?