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| Your patient has recently developed several spontaneous fractures and kidney stones. What do you suspect |
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| What organ has an isthmus? |
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| where is oxytocin produced? |
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| hypothalmic nuclei in posterior pituitary |
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| What hormone targets the epiphyseal plate? |
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| what hormone stimulates osteoblasts? |
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| What is the target organ of the thyrotropin-releasing hormone? |
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| which area of the brain regulates the endocrine system? |
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| The anterior pituitary stimulates other endocrine organs by secreting a group of hormones called? |
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| hypersecretion of what hormone causes acromegaly? |
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| Endemic goiter results from a lack of ______ in the diet. |
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| Hypoglycemia is a problem with which hormone? |
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| What causes Cushing's disease? |
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| Hyper secretion of what hormone results in exopthalmos? |
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| The islets of Langerhans are found in which endocrine organ? |
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| how do endocrine glands differ from exocrine glands? |
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| endocrine secreates directly into blood stream |
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| You have begun to gain weight, feel tired all the time, are constipated, and your pulse seems slow. what do you expect? |
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| An excess of hormones in the blood may cause target organs to decrease the number of receptors for that hormone in a process called. |
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