Crossword clues for pituitary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pituitary \Pi*tu"i*ta*ry\, a. [L. pituita phlegm, pituite: cf. F. pituitarie.] (Anat.)
Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.
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Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary fossa.
Pituitary body or Pituitary gland (Anat.), a a small, somewhat cherry-shaped endocrine gland, situated in the pituitary fossa, and suspended from the base of the hypothalamus; the hypophysis; -- called also glandula pituitaria, and basilaris. It secretes th pituitary hormones: oxytocin; vasopresin; antidiuretic hormone; luteinizing hormone; somatotropins; prolactin; thyroid stimulating hormone; gonadotropins; adrenal corticotropin and other peptide hormones. It affects all hormonal functions, and is thus called the ``master gland''.
Pituitary fossa (Anat.), the ephippium.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin pituitarius "mucous," from pituita "clammy moisture, phlegm, mucus, slime," possibly from a suffixed form of PIE root *peie- "to be fat, swell" (see fat (adj.)). Taken as the name for the gland because it was believed that it channeled mucus to the nose. As a noun by 1899.
Wiktionary
a. (context anatomy English) Of or relating to the pituitary gland. n. 1 (context anatomy English) The pituitary gland. 2 (context anatomy English) The pituitary gland together with the pituitary stalk. 3 (context medicine English) An extract from the pituitary gland.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the pituitary gland; "pituitary hormone"
having abnormal size with overgrown extremities resulting from abnormal pituitary secretion; "a protruding acromegalic jaw"; "a pituitary dwarf" [syn: acromegalic]
n. the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain [syn: pituitary gland, pituitary body, hypophysis]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "pituitary".
In several of the cases reported the squint and optic atrophy and the amblyopia have pointed to the pituitary body as the seat of a new growth of hypertrophy.
Communication was effected through the pituitary body and also by means of the orangefiery and scarlet rays emanating from the sacral region and solar plexus.
But there must be many other factors which also affect the pituitary and in some cases probably favor its development, rather than hindering it.
The placenta produces a gonadotrophin of its own that is not quite like those of the pituitary.
Otherwise there would be confusion with the third of the pituitary gonadotrophins, which carries on the work of the second, acting to maintain the corpus luteum, once formed, and to stimulate the production of progesterone.
Of the three gonadotrophins of the pituitary, lactogenic hormone is the only one to have been isolated in reasonably pure form.
This also takes place in cases of hypopituitarism, where the secretions of the pituitary gland fall below the minimum required for health.
Changes in the water concentration in the blood stimulate a particular hypothalamic center first, and it is the hypothalamus that then sets off the posterior pituitary.
If the stalk connecting the hypothalamus to the posterior pituitary is cut, diabetes insipidus results, even though the gland itself remains unharmed.
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.
During adolescence the visible differences between the mammalian sexes increase under the influence of a mix of hormones from the gonads, adrenal glands, and pituitary gland.
These were not draining directly into the general system of body veins but were running down a collecting vein on the pituitary stalk and entering a secondary capillary system which ended in the sinusoids of the anterior pituitary.
Because of this interrelationship between the pituitary and the gonads, the failure of the pituitary to hold up its end is as surely asexualizing as castration or ovariectomy would be.
CONADOTROPHINS As with the corticoids and with thyroxine, there is an interplay between the various sex hormones and the pituitary.
The sympathetic system also stimulates the secretion of ACTH by the pituitary gland, which in turn stimulates the secretion of corticoids by the adrenal cortex, and these {see p.