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
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
Kemper and I were, of course, aware that in the insect world the ocelli served the same purpose that the degenerate pituitary body once served in the occiput of man.
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
Linsmayer reported a case in which there was a softened adenoma in the pituitary body, and the thymus was absent.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Sight, spiritual, accompanies development of pineal gland and pituitary body, 66; varieties of, 67.
From The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Heindel, Max
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