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
Particularly, he cut the nerves running to the heart and every organ known to produce a hormone � the thyroids, parathyroids, thymus, duodenum, liver, pancreas, adrenals, pineal gland, pituitary body, chorioid plexus and sexual organs.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is difficult to avoid injury to the pituitary body embedded in the basisphenoid bone.
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)
At the upper end of this curious throat-brain canal lies another mass, the so-called pituitary body.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
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