pituitary body
Americannoun
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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
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 thyroid is one of the so-called ductless glands, like the adrenals above the kidneys, the pineal gland and the pituitary body.
From The War Terror by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
The morphological anterior end of the central nerve tube is the point of the infundibulum which is in contact with the pituitary body.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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)
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