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Endocrine System > Endocrine Glands > Pituitary Gland > Pituitary Gland, Posterior
Nervous System > Neurosecretory Systems > Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System > Pituitary Gland > Pituitary Gland, Posterior
Endocrine System > Neurosecretory Systems > Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System > Pituitary Gland > Pituitary Gland, Posterior
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Nervous System > Neurosecretory Systems > Circumventricular Organs > Pituitary Gland, Posterior
Endocrine System > Neurosecretory Systems > Circumventricular Organs > Pituitary Gland, Posterior

Preferred term

Pituitary Gland, Posterior  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Infundibular Process
  • Infundibular Processes
  • Lobe, Neural
  • Lobes, Neural
  • Lobus Nervosus
  • Nervosus, Lobus
  • Neural Lobe
  • Neural Lobes
  • Neurohypophysis
  • Pars Nervosa of Pituitary
  • Pituitary Pars Nervosa
  • Pituitary Posterior Lobe
  • Posterior Lobe of Pituitary
  • Processes, Infundibular
  • Process, Infundibular

Note

  • diseases: coordinate IM with PITUITARY DISEASES (IM) or specifics (IM)

Scope note

  • Neural tissue of the pituitary gland, also known as the neurohypophysis. It consists of the distal AXONS of neurons that produce VASOPRESSIN and OXYTOCIN in the SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS and the PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS. These axons travel down through the MEDIAN EMINENCE, the hypothalamic infundibulum of the PITUITARY STALK, to the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland.

History note

  • 1963; for HYPOTHALAMUS, INFUNDIBULAR use HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE 1983-1999; for INFUNDIBULAR STALK use PITUITARY GLAND 2000-2007

In other languages

  • neurohypofyysi

    Finnish

  • aivolisäkkeen takalohko
  • hypofyysin takalohko
  • lobus posterior hypophyseos
  • neurohypophysis
  • takahypofyysi
  • Neurohypofys

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010904

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