pineal in English

noun
1
a pea-sized conical mass of tissue behind the third ventricle of the brain, secreting a hormonelike substance in some mammals.
Other distinct anatomic structures such as the pineal gland and third ventricle could not be identified due to autolysis.

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1. The pineal gland secretes melanin during times of relaxation and visualization.

2. Pineal Gland Calcification: Why Does It Happen? According to Dr

3. Rather unromantically, the structure he chose was the humble pineal gland.

4. The pineal gland is large in children, but shrinks at puberty.

5. (Science Digest, September 1972) The pineal does this evidently by secreting various chemicals.

6. Ancient Greeks pineal gland to be our connection to the Realms of Thought.

7. Pineal tumors also can cause compression of the cerebral aqueduct, resulting in a noncommunicating hydrocephalus.

8. Melatonin is a hormone produced in the pineal gland in the center of your brain .

9. Interestingly, other experts have also found evidence of this contributing to pineal gland Calcification

10. The mammalian pineal gland, an endocrine organ involved in melatonin Biorhythmicity, represents a classic example, often yielding contradicting

11. The pineal gland consists mainly of pinealocytes, but four other cell types have been identified.

12. Christopher Macklin, pineal gland Calcification occurs due to fluoride exposure, such as that through a water source

13. These are the pituitary, the thyroid, the parathyroids, the adrenals, the thymus, the pineal, the islands of Langerhans and the gonads or sex glands.

14. Melatonin is a kind of indolyl hormone biosynthesized in the pineal gland , which has extensive physiological activities.

15. Clairvoyants use what is called the third eye, which is related to the pineal gland and the psychic chakra, located between the eyebrows

16. Hydroxyapatite crystals are also found in the small calcifications, within the pineal gland and other structures, known as corpora arenacea or 'brain sand'.

17. Bovine pineal gland extracts were assayed for their influence on the neuroendocrine regulation of the adenohypophyseal LH-incretion. No inhibitory activity was found.

18. PineoBlastoma is a type of cancerous () tumor that grows in a part of the brain known as the pineal gland.It occurs mainly in children

19. PineoBlastoma is one type of tumor that starts in the pineal gland, an organ that gives off a hormone called melatonin, which controls sleep.

20. In this work Hollier discusses how Bataille uses the concept of a "pineal-eye" as a reference to a blind-spot in Western rationality, and an organ of excess and delirium.

21. ‘His first report describing the structure and development of the pineal gland was followed by reports on the neuropathology of Avitaminosis, lead poisoning, and the structure and concentration of microglia.’

22. The Msx2 gene associated with hair follicle maintenance is also linked to the closure of the parietal eye in mammals, indicating that fur and lack of pineal eye is linked.

23. It develops as a thickening of the ependyma around the pineal recess of the third ventricle and is attached by peduncles to the habenular and posterior Commissures (Kappers, 1981; Korf et al., 1998).