pineal body

noun

First recorded in 1830–40

Nevertheless, he supposed that communications between them took place through a part of the brain called the pineal body.

The epiphysis, or pineal body, is quite as degenerate as in mammals, although still forming a long stalk as in reptiles.

The superior pair of these bodies is overlapped by the pineal body and forms part of the lower visual centres.

At the posterior end of this is the pineal body, which the section has just escaped.

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