pineal : Idioms & Phrases

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pineal body

  • noun a small endocrine gland in the brain; situated beneath the back part of the corpus callosum; secretes melatonin
    epiphysis cerebri; pineal body; epiphysis.
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pineal eye

  • noun a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles
    third eye.
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Pineal gland

  • noun a small endocrine gland in the brain; situated beneath the back part of the corpus callosum; secretes melatonin
    epiphysis cerebri; pineal body; epiphysis.
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  • (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.
Webster 1913