pineal
IPA: paɪnˈiʌɫ
noun
- The pineal gland.
adjective
- In the shape of a pine cone.
- Pertaining to the pineal gland.
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Examples of "pineal" in Sentences
- Balances pituitary and pineal gland.
- Pinealoma is a tumor of the pineal gland.
- Is serotonin produced in the pineal gland
- The pineal secretes the hormone melatonin.
- Epiphysis also refers to the pineal gland.
- This leads to activation of the pineal gland.
- Pinealoblastoma is a tumor of the pineal gland.
- The pineal gland is located in the diencephalon.
- In response the pineal secretes the hormone melatonin.
- Calcification of the pineal gland is typical in adults.
- As a result, Yale had a kind of head start in pineal research.
- Because it vaguely resembles a pinecone in shape it is called the pineal gland (pin'ee-ul).
- Here goes: We all have a third eye called the pineal gland located in the middle of the brain, which secretes melatonin.
- By Plato the rational soul is placed in the brain, whilst Descartes relegates it to the minute portion of it called the pineal gland.
- When the sun sets and darkness sweeps over, a pea-sized structure located deep between the hemispheres of your brain called the pineal gland begins to secrete this hormone, preparing you for bed.
- In the brain of man and many of the lower vertebrates, hanging by two peduncles, or strands of nerve fibre, from the thalami, or beds of the optic nerve, is a small rounded or heart-shaped body of about the size of a pea, known as the pineal gland.
- They were especially intent upon increasing the secretions of what we now call the pineal gland, and referred to these as the nectar of the moon—an appropriate nomenclature, since the primary hormone secreted by the pineal is melatonin, the hormone that helps us sleep.
- For he maintained, that the soul or mind is specially united to a particular part of the brain, namely, to that part called the pineal gland, by the aid of which the mind is enabled to feel all the movements which are set going in the body, and also external objects, and which the mind by