pituitary body
Americannoun
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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
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.
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 Russell, George William
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Marie regards the disease as a systemic dystrophy analogous to myxedema, due to a morbid condition of the pituitary body, just as myxedema is due to disease of the thyroid.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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