Endocrine System Vocabulary

acromegaly

Addison's disease

adenohypophysis

adenoma

adrenal

adrenaline

adrenocorticotropic

hormone ACTH

adrenogenital syndrome

adrenoglomerulotropin

aldosterone

anterior pituitary

antidiuretic hormone

ADH

brain sand

calcitonin CT

cholecystokinin CCK

chromaffin cell

corticosterone

cortisone

cretinism

Cushing's syndrome

diabetes insipidus

enterocrinin

epinephrine

erythropoietin

exophthalmic goiter

follicular cells

gastrin

giantism

glucocorticoid

goiter

gonadocorticoid

growth hormone GH

hormone

hypersecretion

hypophyseal portal

vessels

hypophysis

hyposecretion

infundibulum

inhibiting factors

luteinizing hormone LH

luteotropic hormone

LTH

median eminence

melanocyte stimulating

hormone MSH

melatonin

mineralocorticoid

myxedema

negative feedback

neurohypophysis

norepinephrine

oxytocin OT

parafollicular cells

parathyroid

parathormone PTH

pars intermedia

peptide

pheochromocytomas

pineal

pituitary

pituitary dwarfism

pituicyte

placenta

posterior pituitary receptor

prolactin PRL

regulating hormones

releasing factors

steroid

suprarenal

sympathomimetic

T₃

T₄

target cells

tetany

thymosin

thymus

thyrocalcitonin

thyroglobin

thyroid stimulating

hormone TSH

thyroxine

triiodothyronine

trophic

tropic

tuber cinereum

zona fasiculata

zona glomerulosa

zona reticularis