pituitary body

noun

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It is true that brain tumors, gliomatous and cystic and, above all, the overgrowth of the pituitary body in acromegaly give rise to agonizing pains.

Between this skeleton and the pituitary body the important portion of the brain formed by the occipital lobes takes its origin.

The morphological anterior end of the central nerve tube is the point of the infundibulum which is in contact with the pituitary body.

Sight, spiritual, accompanies development of pineal gland and pituitary body, 66; varieties of, 67.

Pressure on the optic chiasma, for example by a tumour of the pituitary body, is associated with bilateral temporal hemianopsia.

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