endocrineadjective
uk/ˈen.də.krɪn//ˈen.də.krɪn/specializedrelating to any of the organs of the body that make hormones (= chemicals that make the body grow and develop) and put them into the blood, or to the hormones that they make
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Other major organs
- bladder
- cardiothoracic
- gall bladder
- gut
- hepatocellular
- kidney
- liver
- nephron
- pancreatic
- sense organ
- splanchnic
- spleen
- splenic
- swim bladder
- tum
- vesica
- viscera
- vital organs
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- It is simply all the endocrine or hormone-producing organs organized into a balanced chemical system—adjusted to each other.
- This takes us out of cell and endocrine biology and into the general problem in group adjustment to environment which that specialization entails.