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प्रश्न
If you stand to make your maiden speech before a large audience, your mouth dries up and heart rate increases. What brings about these changes?
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उत्तर
Adrenalin secreted by the adrenal medulla brings about these feelings.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The catecholamines are secreted by _________.
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The diagram given below represents the location and structure of an endocrine gland. Study the same and answer the questions that follow:
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- Name the endocrine gland shown in the diagram.
- Name the secretion of the gland which regulates basal metabolism.
- Name the mineral element required for the synthesis of the above mentioned hormone.
- Name the disease caused due to undersecretion of the above mentioned hormone in children.
- Name the disease caused due to hypersecretion of the above mentioned hormone.
Given below is the outline of the human body showing the important glands:
- Name the glands marked 1 to 4.
- Name the hormone secreted by part 2. Give one important function of this hormone.
- Name the endocrine part of the numbered 3.
- Why is the part labelled 1 called the master gland? Which part of the forebrain controls the gland labelled 1?
- Name the gland that secretes the ‘emergency hormone’.
Match the items given in Column A with the most appropriate ones in Column B and rewrite the correct matching pairs
| Column A | Column B | ||
| 1 | Cretinism | a | Hypersecretion of the adrenal cortex |
| 2 | Diabetes insipidus | b | Hyposecretion of Thyroxine |
| 3 | Exophthalmic Goitre | c | Hyposecretion of growth hormone |
| 4 | Adrenal virilism | d | Hyposecretion of Vasopressin |
| 5 | Dwarfism | e | Hyposecretion of the adrenal cortex |
| f | Hypersecretion of Growth hormone | ||
| g | Hypersecretion of thyroxine |
Identify the odd one in the following and mention what the rest is:
Name the glucocorticoid used in treatment of allergy and why?
Estrogen is secreted by the corpus luteum.
Correct the following statement by replacing the term underlined.
Tetraiodothyronine is an emergency hormone.
Which of the following is not a disorder of adrenal cortex?
List the hormones secreted by the following:
Adrenal
