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Endocrine System > Endocrine Glands > Pituitary Gland
... > Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Brain > Limbic System > Hypothalamus > Hypothalamus, Middle > Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System > Pituitary Gland
... > Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Brain > Prosencephalon > Diencephalon > Hypothalamus > Hypothalamus, Middle > Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System > Pituitary Gland
Nervous System > Neurosecretory Systems > Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System > Pituitary Gland
Endocrine System > Neurosecretory Systems > Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System > Pituitary Gland

Preferred term

Pituitary Gland  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cerebri, Hypophysis
  • Cerebrus, Hypophysis
  • Hypophyses
  • Hypophysis
  • Hypophysis Cerebri
  • Hypophysis Cerebrus

Note

  • general or unspecified: prefer specific lobes; /rad eff: consider also PITUITARY IRRADIATION; /surg: probably HYPOPHYSECTOMY; consider also PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM & HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM

Scope note

  • A small, unpaired gland situated in the SELLA TURCICA. It is connected to the HYPOTHALAMUS by a short stalk which is called the INFUNDIBULUM.

In other languages

  • aivolisäke

    Finnish

  • gl. pituitaria
  • glandula pituitaria
  • hypofyysi
  • hypophysis
  • hypophysis cerebri
  • Hypofys

    Swedish

  • Hypophysis cerebri
  • Nedre hjärnbihang
  • Undre hjärnbihang

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010902

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