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Pituitary body   /pətˈuətˌɛri bˈɑdi/   Listen
Pituitary body

noun
1.
The master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain.  Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary, pituitary gland.






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"Pituitary body" Quotes from Famous Books



... had probably, as the gorillas may have, an excess of the pituitary in their systems. For four years he studied the morbid phenomena in the tissues of these sufferers at last consigned to their end. First one, and then another, and then a third and a fourth exhibited a striking hypertrophy of the pituitary body and a consequent widening of the portion of the base of the skull which cradles the gland. He proceeded to say so in the graduating thesis of his pupil, Souza Leite. The inference was inevitable that the entire process was to be put down to an overactivity ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.



Words linked to "Pituitary body" :   diencephalon, posterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland, adenohypophysis, anterior pituitary, pars nervosa, interbrain, hypophyseal stalk, thalmencephalon, endocrine, ductless gland, neurohypophysis, betweenbrain, posterior pituitary gland, endocrine gland



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