Final Exam - MA Lecture

What system produces chemical messengers known as hormones?

Endocrine System

What is the most common type of stimulus for the release of hormones?

Hormonal control

What does the Growth Hormone Stimulate?

c) production of long bones and skeletal muscles

What hormone stimulates follicle development in female stimulating hormone in males and females?

FSH (Follicle-Stimulating-Hormone)

Gigantism results from the hypersecretion of GH hormone in ____

b) Childhood

Acromegally is a result of hypersecretion of GH hormone during ____

a) adulthood

What forms if the diet does not have enough iodine ?

Goiter

Alcohol inhibits the release of what hormone?

ADH (Anti-Diuretic Horomone)

The bodys major metabolic hormone is what?

c) Thyroid Horomone

Fight or Flight prompts the release of what?a

Epinenpherine

What odes the pineal gland secrete?

Melatonin

Where is the pineal gland located?

Pineal gland is a tiny pine-cone shaped gland located on the dorsal aspect of the midbrain

What cells produce insulin?

Beta cells

Which of the following terms describes the location of kidneys?

b) Retroperitoneal

What is the order of the kidney (renal) tubules leaving the glomerulus ?

Bowman's capsule (Glomerular Capsule), Proximal Convoluted Capsule, Loop of henle (Nephron Loop), Descending Limb, Ascending limb, Distal Convoluted Tubule, Collecting Duct

What do you call pus in the urine ?

Pyuria

How does smooth muscle move urine to the bladder ?

Peristalsis

The bladder is able to expand as urine accumulates

a) adulthood

b) childhood

7. Acromegaly results from the hypersecretion of GH hormone in ____

a) childhood

b) adulthood

8. Know what forms if the diet does not have enough iodine

Goiter

9. Alcohol inhibits release of what hormone?

ADH

10. The body's major metabolic hormone is known as what?

a) prolactin

b) Growth hormone

c) Calcitonin

d) Adrenaline

e) Thyroid hormone *

11. Fight or Flight prompts the release of what?

a) Adrenaline

b) Epinepherine

12. What cells produce insulin?

Beta cells

13. What is the order of the kidney (renal) tubules leaving the glomerulus

1. Bowmans Capsule (Glomerular Capsule)

2. Proximal Convoluted Tubule

3. Loop of Henle (Nephron Loop)

4. Descending Limb

5. Ascending Limb

6. Distal Convoluted Tubule

7. Collecting Duct

14. What do you call the presence of pus in urine?

Pyuria

15. The bladder is able to expand as urine accumulates within the bladder through the presence of what?

a) Stratified Squamous

b) Sphincters

c) Transitional epithelium

16. What are the terms for urination?

Micturition, Voiding, Incontinence, Retention

17. What is the rule for water and salt ?

Water follows salt and follows it passively

18. What do you call the male gonads that produce testosterone and sperm?

a) Testes

b) Testicles *

c) Menses

19. What is cut during the vasectomy?

Vas deferens

20. What do you call the enlarged top of the penis ?

Glans penis

21. Each spermated ovum have ____

a) 46 chromosomes

b) 23 pairs of chromosomes

c) 46 pairs of chromosomes

d) 23 chromosomes *

22. Where does fertilization occur in females?

The fallopian tube

23. What do you call the superior portion of the uterus?

Fundus

24. Which hormone is responsible for ovulation?

Progesterone