pineal body
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pineal body
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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The epiphysis, or pineal body, is quite as degenerate as in mammals, although still forming a long stalk as in reptiles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
From its broad anterior end two white bands, the peduncles of the pineal body, pass forward, one on the inner side of each optic thalamus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
The pineal body is rudimentary, and the optic lobes are now, and throughout the Mammalia, subdivided into four corpora quadrigemina.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
At the posterior end of this is the pineal body, which the section has just escaped.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
A similar reminiscence is found in the pineal body, a small and useless object, about the size and shape of a hazel-nut, in the centre of the brain.
From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph
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