English
Noun
pituitary gland (plural pituitary glands)
- (anatomy) An endocrine gland, about the size of a pea, that sits in a small, bony cavity at the base of the brain whose secretions control the other endocrine glands and influence growth, metabolism, and maturation.
Synonyms
Translations
endocrine gland
- Catalan: glàndula pituïtària f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 垂體／垂体 (zh) (chuítǐ), 垂体 (zh) (chuítǐ)
- Czech: podvěsek mozkový m, hypofýza (cs) f
- Dutch: hypofyse (nl)
- Esperanto: hipofizo
- Finnish: aivolisäke (fi)
- French: glande pituitaire f, hypophyse (fr) f
- Galician: glándula pituitaria f
- German: Hypophyse (de) f, Hirnanhangsdrüse f
- Hebrew: בלוטת יותרת המוח
- Hungarian: agyalapi mirigy (hu)
- Icelandic: heiladingull (is) m, dingull m
- Ido: hipofizo (io)
- Irish: faireog phiotútach f, hipifiseas m, hipifis f
- Italian: ipofisi (it) f, ghiandola pituitaria f
- Japanese: 下垂体 (かすいたい, kasuitai), 脳下垂体 (のうかすいたい, nōkasuitai)
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- Latin: glandula pituitaria f
- Maori: repe whakatupu, repe tupu
- Mongolian: өнчин тархи (önčin tarxi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hypofyse m
- Nynorsk: hypofyse m
- Polish: przysadka mózgowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: hipófise (pt)
- Romanian: hipofiză (ro) f, glandă hipofiză (ro) f
- Russian: гипо́физ (ru) m (gipófiz), питуита́рная железа́ f (pituitárnaja železá), мозгово́й прида́ток m (mozgovój pridátok), прида́ток мо́зга m (pridátok mózga)
- Spanish: glándula pituitaria f
- Swedish: hypofys (sv) c
- Thai: ต่อมใต้สมอง (dtɔ̀m-dtâi-sà-mɔ̌ɔng)
- Vietnamese: tuyến yên
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See also
Further reading
pituitary gland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 