What’s on the Hormones poster
A 7-row table: Gland · Hormone · Effect.
The hormones you are most likely to meet by name.
- Pancreas — Insulin — Lowers blood glucose
- Pancreas — Glucagon — Raises blood glucose
- Thyroid — Thyroxine — Sets metabolic rate
- Adrenal — Adrenaline — Fight or flight
- Adrenal — Cortisol — Stress, inflammation, glucose
- Pituitary — Growth hormone — Growth and repair
- Pineal — Melatonin — Sleep timing
The pituitary is called the master gland because it controls the thyroid, adrenals and gonads through its own hormones.
Questions about the Hormones poster
- What’s on the Hormones poster?
- A 7-row table: Gland · Hormone · Effect. The hormones you are most likely to meet by name. Pancreas — Insulin — Lowers blood glucose; Pancreas — Glucagon — Raises blood glucose; Thyroid — Thyroxine — Sets metabolic rate; Adrenal — Adrenaline — Fight or flight; Adrenal — Cortisol — Stress, inflammation, glucose; Pituitary — Growth hormone — Growth and repair; Pineal — Melatonin — Sleep timing. The pituitary is called the master gland because it controls the thyroid, adrenals and gonads through its own hormones.
- Who is the Hormones poster for?
- Hormones belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning anatomy can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Hormones poster?
- Hormones are slow, wide-reaching messages. Nerves are fast, targeted ones. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Hormones belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Hormones?
- Blood, Blood Types and The Body Systems sit alongside Hormones in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BloodBlood TypesThe Body Systems
- Is the Hormones poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Hormones downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Hormones poster print at?
- Hormones is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Hormones loses nothing.Printing guide
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