SICK VISIT MANAGEMENT OF ENDOCRINE TEST PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED STUDY SHEET

SICK VISIT MANAGEMENT OF ENDOCRINE
TEST PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
VERIFIED STUDY SHEET

●● Negative feedback loop
Answer: Regulating mechanism that increases or decreases to reach a
desired set point.


Simple term
If a hormone level is high, the body slows down production so that the
overall hormone level in body reaches normal range.


●● Endocrine glands
Answer: Adrenal
Hypothalamus
Ovaries
Testes
Pancreas
Parathyroid
Thyroid
Pituitary

,●● antieror pituitary gland controls what
Answer: -Growth hormone (GH)
-Andrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
- thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)
-Gonadotropic hormone-(FSH- follicle stimulating hormone)
(LH- luteinizing hormone)
-prolactin (PRL)


●● Growth Hormone (GH)
Answer: Bone


●● Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Answer: Adrenal cortex


●● Thyroid stimulating hormone(TSH)
Answer: Thyroid


●● Gonadotropic hormone
(FSH & LH)
Answer: Ovary
Testes

,●● Prolactin (PRL)
Answer: Mammary glands


●● Posterior pituitary gland
Answer: Oxytocin
Anti diuretic hormone (ADH)- (vasopressin)


●● Oxytocin
Answer: Muscles of uterus


●● Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
Answer: Kidney tubules


●● Thyroid gland
Answer: -Produces T3 and T4 and also calcitonin
- controls metabolism and growth
- decreases blood calcium
- calcium and phosphorus have a balanced relationship when one is up
the other is down


●● Calcitonin
Answer: decreases blood calcium levels

, ●● Parathyroid gland
Answer: -Control calcium and phosphorus metabolism
-produce parathyroid hormone


●● adrenal gland
Answer: -middle
-Regulates sodium and electrolyte balance
- affects carbs, fats and protein metabolism
-fight or flight response


●● Adrenal Gland (Adrenal Cortex)
Answer: -outer shell
-glucocorticoids
-mineralocorticoids
-secretes small amounts of sex hormones(androgens and estrogens)


●● Glucocorticoids
Answer: cortisol
cortisone
corticosterone