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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



... the haemal position of the cerebral ganglion in Annelids by supposing that it degenerated and disappeared altogether in the Annelidan ancestor of Vertebrates, and that accordingly it had no homologue in the Vertebrate nervous system. Beard put forward also the ingenious theory that the hypophysis represents the old ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell


Words linked to "Hypophysis" :   pituitary body, endocrine gland, pituitary gland, anterior pituitary gland, hypophyseal stalk, thalmencephalon, ductless gland, neurohypophysis, posterior pituitary gland, hypophyseal, diencephalon, adenohypophysis, endocrine, pituitary


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