pituitary body
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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
In several of the cases reported the squint and optic atrophy and the amblyopia have pointed to the pituitary body as the seat of a new growth of hypertrophy.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The pineal gland and the pituitary body are adjuncts of the brain whose functions have long been in latency.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
The enlargement of the face and extremities was characteristic, and the cerebral and ocular symptoms pointed to the pituitary body as the seat of the lesion.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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.
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