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What mineral is used by the butterfly shaped gland in your neck to make hormones?
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It uses Iodine
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Which endocrine gland is in your neck and shaped like a bowtie or butterfly?
Thyroid gland is located in your neck and is shaped like a butterfly.
What is the butterfly shaped gland just in front of the windpipe?
thyroid gland
Is the name of the gland that wraps around the front part of the throat at the Adam's apple and that produces hormones that influence the growth and development of the body thyroid gland?
it is An Endocrine gland located at the base of the neck. it produce Thyroxine, T3, and Calcitonine hormones The butterfly shaped gland in the lower part of the neck. Its main job is to secrete hormones that control the metabolism of the cells in your body.
What endocrine gland is in your neck and shaped like bow tie or butterfly?
Thyroid gland.
What butterfly shaped gland is located just in front of the windpipe?
thyroid gland
What is the name of the butterfly shaped gland in front of the windpipe?
The thyroid
What are 2 physiological functions of the thyroid hormones?
The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located in the base of the neck just below the Adam's apple. It's primary function is to produce thyroid hormones that regulate our metabolism, as well as other body organs.
What organ system is the thyroid gland in?
The thyroid gland is under the command of of your pituitary gland, which is part of your endocrine system
What gland wraps itself around the trachea?
The thyroid gland is located below larynx and around trachea. It is a butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the neck. It is one of the largest endocrine glands in the body and it is involved in iodine uptake and produces the hormones thyroxine (T4) & triiodothyronine (T3).
What shape is the thyroid?
Thyroid is the greek word for 'shield' but the gland is more 'butterfly' shaped.
What organ does calcitonin come from?
Calcitonin comes from the thyroid, the butterfly-shaped gland in your throat.
What is inflammatioin of the thyroid gland?
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland that sits at the base of the neck, near the Adam's apple. It produces hormones that regulate our metabolism. A goiter is inflammation of the thyroid gland. Worldwide, the most common cause of a goiter is due to a lack of iodine in our daily diet. In the United States, a goiter more often occurs due to the over or underproduction of thyroid hormones, or due to nodules that develop in the thyroid gland.
