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pituitary glands

n. (plural of pituitary gland English)

Usage examples of "pituitary glands".

He took out the pituitary glands of rats, and after replacing the necessary hormones, found that the rats had an increased life-span.

The seasonal changes in the functioning of the pituitary glands of hibernating animals were well known to him, and offered a ready-made excuse when he went to the labs with his problem.

As if they themselves wouldn't inject anything sucked from the pituitary glands of dead cadavers if they thought they could look as good as I did on television.

Even this Place is, after its fashion, a giant brain: its floor is the brainpan, the boundary of the Void is the cortex of gray matter--yes, even the Major and Minor Maintainers are analogues of the pineal and pituitary glands, which in some form sustain all nervous systems.