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Hypophysis   Listen
noun
Hypophysis  n.  
1.
(Anat.) See Pituitary body, under Pituitary.
2.
(Med.) Cataract.





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"Hypophysis" Quotes from Famous Books



... ceptors control these activities, one would expect to find that they control also those organs whose function is the production of energizing internal secretions. Over these organs—the thyroid, the adrenals, the hypophysis—the contact ceptors have no control. Prolonged laboratory experimentation seems to prove this postulate. According to our observations, no amount of physical trauma inflicted upon animals will cause hyperthyroidism or increased adrenalin ...
— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile


Words linked to "Hypophysis" :   endocrine, hypophyseal stalk, hypophysial, betweenbrain, adenohypophysis, diencephalon, anterior pituitary, pituitary gland, interbrain, thalmencephalon, hypophyseal, posterior pituitary, neurohypophysis, pars nervosa, endocrine gland, pituitary body, anterior pituitary gland, posterior pituitary gland


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