Crossword clues for pineal
pineal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pineal \Pi"ne*al\, a. [L. pinea the cone of a pine, from pineus of the pine, from pinus a pine: cf. F. pin['e]ale.] Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.
Pineal gland (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also pineal body, epiphysis, conarium. In some animals it is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant of a dorsal median eye.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, in reference to the gland in the brain, from French pinéal, literally "like a pine cone," from Latin pinea "pine cone," from pinus "pine tree" (see pine (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 In the shape of a pine cone. 2 Pertaining to the pineal gland. n. The pineal gland.
WordNet
adj. relating to the pineal body; "pineal hormone"
having the form of a pine cone
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "pineal".
We do know that the pineal is a residuum of the single eye that our very remote sea-going ancestors had in the center of their fishy foreheads.
With the pineal as a third eye I should be able to follow you through time.
And I can think of at least one historical instance in which the pineal has actually tried to penetrate the forehead, though evidently only in monolobate form.
Only one part is not replicated the pineal gland but that is another matter.
One had a third, soft pineal eye, exposed and raw, weeping constantly in the center of his forehead.
No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland.
An area of the brain, apparently located near the so-called pineal eye, responds directly to unshielded Tau influence, and there is evidence that certain aspects of Tau are mutually responsive to strong psychic states.
Nevertheless there is reason to believe not only that some animals of the archaeological past on planet Earth had three eyes but also that man himself possessed a third eye and that the pineal gland is a vestige of such an eye in the middle of the forehead, the human forehead.
Thought and soul were incorporeal entities, but could interact with the mechanism of the body by way of a particular gland, the pineal, located deep in the brain.
And, second, the pineal is a structure found uniquely in humans and not present in other animals.
Catholicism in its Sunday-best garb, twiddling the knobs of mechanism via the pineal, but he left a clockwork human for the remaining six days of the week, debiologized as well as desacralized and open to treatment as a mere bete machine within the developing industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
I was ordered three times to fly nonstop from Tokyo to New York, a flight of about the same duration, but because I was crossing ten time zones, my pineal gland secreted melatonin so abnormally that it required me four to five days to bring it back into balance.
A device, with hundreds of hair thin needles, pierces the scalp and produces a detailed 3-D map, a grid, which gives us the precise location of the ridges of the hippocampus ventricle and the pineal gland.
Corby moved outward through the body-window and touched each of the gawking tribesfolk deep in the brain, sparking the pineal gland and the olfactory nerve-lobes with kha.
There it is, to be reckoned with, like the coccyx, the pineal eye, and the vermiform appendix.