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Anatomy Final Review
cumulative and endocrine system
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
07/25/2007

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whawt is the endocrine system composed of?
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a group of ductless glands
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what is the difference between exocrine and endocrine
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exocrine have glands with ducts while endocrine have ductless glands
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what does the endocrine system do?
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secrete hormones into the blood
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what is a hormone?
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proteins or steroids that are chemically synthesized and secreted by a cell-has a target cell which it regulates-travels in teh blood
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how does a hormone travel?
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in the blood
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a hormone has a target _____ which it regulates
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cell
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how are most hormones classified?
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most are proteins and some are steroids
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hypothalamus secretes what?
Definition
regulatory hormones that affect the pituitary gland
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what did the pituitary gland used to be called?
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the master gland
now the hypothalamus is the master gland
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is a nerve located in the cns or pns?
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pns
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a tract is a collection of ____ ___ in the ____
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myelinated axons in the cns
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nucleus is in the ___
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cns
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cerebral cortex is what type of matter
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gray matter
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lens rounds up for___
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near vision
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what is the hypophyseal tract
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sometimes called the hypothalamopypophyseal portal system, it is the connection between the pituatary cland and hypothalamus(tract of axons)
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pituitary gland
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hypophysis
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