The pineal body secretes which hormone that maintains the body's internal clock,the 24-hour wake-sleep cycle,and regulates the onset and duration of sleep?
A) oxytocin
B) calcitonin
C) melatonin
D) cortisol
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Q23: The suffix -physis means:
A)state of growing.
B)abnormal condition.
C)deficient.
D)gland.
Q26: Severe hypothyroidism in adults is known as:
A)acromegaly.
B)Graves'
Q29: Hyposecretion of cortisol from the adrenal cortex
Q30: Which gland is also called the neurohypophysis?
A)thyroid
Q31: The best definition of parathyroid is:
A) abnormal
Q35: Which blood test is performed to measure
Q35: The process by which two hormones exert
Q36: A pregnant woman may be given the
Q37: Which is the process where two hormones
Q39: Chronic and progressive enlargement of the thyroid
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