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Health

Endocrine system

Thyroid

The thyroid gland (glandula thyroidea) is an unpaired organ located in the anterior region of the neck at the level of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. The gland consists of two parts - the right (lobus dexter) and the left (lobus sinister), connected by a narrow isthmus. The thyroid gland is rather superficial.

Pituitary

The pituitary gland (hypophysis, s.glandula pituitaria) is located in the hypophyseal fossa of the Turkish saddle of the sphenoid bone and is separated from the cranial cavity by the appendage of the hard shell of the brain, which forms the diaphragm of the saddle.

Endocrine glands

Management processes occurring in the body is provided not only by the nervous system, but also by the endocrine glands (organs of internal secretion). The latter include specialized in the process of evolution, topographically disjointed, of different origin of the gland, which do not have excretory ducts and secrete the secret produced by them directly into the tissue fluid and blood.

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