Exaggerated voicer, but comprehensive; kind of fun! "Learn the Endocrine System" (Mar 9)
- Pineal gland (brain)
- pituitary gland (brain)
- "master" gland; controls other glands
- hypothalamus (brain)
- controls body temperature,
- controls hunger & thirst
- interface between nerve and hormone systems
- thyroid
- control energy production
- controls bone growth
- controls development of brain and nervous system
- disease
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- thyroid removes I from blood for making hormone
- no I in blood causes thyroid to get bigger
- giant thyroid is "goiter"
- I in food prevents goiter
- parathyroid
- adrenal gland
- pancreas
- gonad
- ovaries
- testes
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