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 a few cases it accompanies disease of the pituitary body, which is located in the under surface of the brain.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Finally, we may note the pineal gland and the pituitary body, as remarkable appendages above and below the thalamencephalon.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It was about the pituitary body;—oh, I've come to have a great awe of the pituitary body, it seems to be responsible for so many things.
From Under the Country Sky by Frances Rogers
To be intelligible we replace the opalescent shining by the terms of the anatomist, and we speak of the pineal gland and the pituitary body in the same breath with the Most High.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
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