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Final Test Review (Endocrine & Respiratory)
Question | Answer |
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May occur as a reaction to allergies, nasal obstructions, or infections, what is this called? | Sinusitis |
Symptoms of THIS includes coughing, chills, high fever, and achiness and chest pains, cyanosis, thickened yellow/green phlegm and blood streaked phlegm, what is this ? | Pneumonia |
A condition caused by decrease output of insulin is called what? | Diabetes Mellitus |
A congenital hypothyroidism due to an error in the fetal development in which the thyroid fails to develop or is underactive is called what? | Cretinism |
Avoiding what will help maintain a healthy respiratory system? | smoking, toxic chemicals and air pollution |
What causes a contraction of a pregnant uterus and also causes an injection of milk from the mammary glands? | Oxytocin |
Symptoms including night sweats, fatigue and cough that will start dry and then begin to productive of bloody or pus-filled phlegm is caused by what? | Tuberculosis |
What glands possess tubes or ducts leading from the gland to a particular part of the body? | Exocrine glands |
What stimulate growth and development of sexual organs plus development of secondary sexual characteristics? | Pituitary glands |
What occurs as air passes through the nasal cavity? | It is warmed, moistened, and filtered |
The islets of Langerhans are a small group of cells scattered through the what? | Pancreas |
What stimulates the adrenal cortex to produce cortical hormones? | ACTH |
The chemical substances manufactured by the endocrine glands are known as what? | hormones |
What type of respiration is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the environment and the blood and takes place in the lungs? | External |