Crossword-Solution: HYPOPHYSIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypophysis | n. | See Pituitary body, under Pituitary. |
| Hypophysis | n. | Cataract. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| pituitary gland | 1 answer |
| MASTER gland of the body | 2 answers |
| BRAIN, part of the | 23 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EATGA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Epinephrin and Pituitary Extract: The blood pressure-raising substance of the suprarenals or of the pituitary gland (hypophysis cerebri) has been much used in heart failure.
Pituitary body or gland (Anat.), a glandlike body of unknown function, situated in the pituitary fossa, and connected with the infundibulum of the brain; the hypophysis.
HYPOPHYSIS, h[=i]-pof'i-sis, _n._ the pituitary body of the brain: (_bot._) an inflated part of the pedicel under the capsule, in mosses; in flowering plants, a cell of the embryo producing the primary root and root-cap.
One of these glands, the one best known, is the _thyroid_; but there are others, such, for example, as the _thymus_, situated beneath the sternum, or breast-bone, and much reduced in size in the adult; the _pineal gland_ or hypophysis cerebri, situated at the base of the encephalon; the _suprarenal capsules_, little ear-shaped organs located above the kidneys.
These glands are very small; the largest is the thyroid, which weighs between thirty and forty grams (1 to 1-3/5 oz.); the suprarenal glands weigh four grams each (about 60 grains); the hypophysis hardly attains the weight of one gram.