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pineal gland
(encz) | pineal gland,epifýza [med.] Ondřej Šeda |
pineal gland
(encz) | pineal gland,šišinka [med.] Ondřej Šeda |
Pineal gland
(gcide) | Pineal \Pi"ne*al\, a. [L. pinea the cone of a pine, from pineus
of the pine, from pinus a pine: cf. F. pin['e]ale.]
Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.
[1913 Webster]
Pineal gland (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the
third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also
pineal body, epiphysis, conarium. In some animals it
is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal
eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant
of a dorsal median eye.
[1913 Webster] |
pineal gland
(wn) | pineal gland
n 1: a small endocrine gland in the brain; situated beneath the
back part of the corpus callosum; secretes melatonin [syn:
pineal gland, pineal body, epiphysis cerebri,
epiphysis] |
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