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Endocrine System Identification Guide

This document provides information about the endocrine system. It lists various endocrine organs and glands and asks the reader to identify them based on descriptions. It also lists effects of hormones and asks the reader to identify the responsible hormones from a key. The document tests the reader's knowledge of the endocrine system, including identification of glands, their locations, and their hormone products and functions. It contains three sections - identification of glands, naming hormones based on their effects when deficient, and matching hormone effects to hormones and their sites of production.

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Endocrine System Identification Guide

This document provides information about the endocrine system. It lists various endocrine organs and glands and asks the reader to identify them based on descriptions. It also lists effects of hormones and asks the reader to identify the responsible hormones from a key. The document tests the reader's knowledge of the endocrine system, including identification of glands, their locations, and their hormone products and functions. It contains three sections - identification of glands, naming hormones based on their effects when deficient, and matching hormone effects to hormones and their sites of production.

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PINES CITY COLLEGES

COLLEGE OF NURSING

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

1. IDENTIFICATION. Identify the endocrine organ described by the following statements:

__________ 1. Ride ‘horseback’ on the thyroid (Parathyroid gland)


__________ 2. Found in the pelvic cavity of the female, concerned with ova and
female hormone production (Ovaries)
__________ 3. Located in the throat; bilobed gland connected by an isthmus (Thyroid)
__________ 4. A mixed gland, located close to the stomach and small intestine (Pancreas)
__________ 5. Found in the roof of the third ventricle (Pineal gland)
__________ 6. Found atop the kidneys (Adrenal glands)

II. Name the hormone whose production in INADEQUATE amounts results in the following

______________ 7 . Tetany (Parathyroid hormone)


______________ 8. Abnormally small stature, normal proportions (Growth hormone)
______________ 9. Myxedema (a lower-than-normal metabolic rate) (Thyroxine)
_____________ 10. Poor development of secondary sex characteristics (estrogen/testosterone)
_____________ 11. Diabetes Mellitus (Insulin)

III. For each statement describing hormonal effects, identify the hormone(s) involved by choosing a
number from key A, and note the hormone’s site of production with the a letter from key B.
More than one hormone may be involved in some cases.

_____ , ______ 1. Mimic the sympathetic nervous system (5,b)


_____ , ______ and _____ , ______ 2. Help maintain salt and water balance in the body fluids (3,a / 2,h)
_____ , ______ 3. Help mature T-lymphocytes (19,k)
_____ , ______ and _____ , ______ 4. Directly responsible for regulating the menstrual cycle (6,e / 13,e)
_____ , ______ 5. Basal metabolism hormone (17,j)
_____ , ______ 6. Involved in milk ejection (12,d)
_____ , ______ ; _____ , ______ ; _____ , ______ ; and _____ , ______ 7. Regulate the function of
another endocrine gland (7,c / 11,c / 1,c / 18,c )
_____ , ______ and _____ , ______ 8. Regulate blood calcium levels (15,g / 4,j)
_____ , ______ 9. Drive development of secondary sexual characteristics (6,e)
_____ , ______ and _____ , ______ 10. Regulate blood glucose levels; produced by the same
“mixed” glands (8.f / 10,f)

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