pituitary body
Americannoun
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Particularly, he cut the nerves running to the heart and every organ known to produce a hormone � the thyroids, parathyroids, thymus, duodenum, liver, pancreas, adrenals, pineal gland, pituitary body, chorioid plexus and sexual organs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Characters: Adolph Roome III, 14, more than 6 ft. tall, weight 235 lb., overgrown apparently from the disfunction of his pituitary body, a ductless gland which controls growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pressure on the optic chiasma, for example by a tumour of the pituitary body, is associated with bilateral temporal hemianopsia.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The prevailing trend of opinion is that this condition is due to irregular action of the pituitary body which controls osseous development.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
At the upper end of this curious throat-brain canal lies another mass, the so-called pituitary body.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
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