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Master gland of the endocrine system
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pituitary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Among the patients with apparently normal pituitaries or a microadenoma the highest prolactin concentration was 4200 mU/l. ▪ Axons from this same area project into the posterior pituitary . ▪ This also does not effect any control ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain [syn: pituitary gland , pituitary body , hypophysis ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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. Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary ...
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.