Hypophysitis is an inflammation of the pituitary gland.
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Pituitary
//pɪˈtuɪˌtɛɹi//
Synonyms for "pituitary" (6 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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42 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نُخَامِيّ adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
Bulgarian
2 entries- хипофизен adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- хипофиза noun (pituitary gland)
Catalan
1 entries- pituïtari adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 垂體的 /垂体的 adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- 腦垂體的 /脑垂体的 adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- 垂體 /垂体 noun (pituitary gland together with the pituitary stalk)
- 腦垂體 /脑垂体 noun (pituitary gland together with the pituitary stalk)
Dutch
2 entries- hypofysaal adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- hypofyse noun (pituitary gland together with the pituitary stalk)
Esperanto
1 entries- hipofiza adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
Finnish
1 entries- aivolisäke noun (pituitary gland)
French
3 entries- hypophysaire adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- pituitaire adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- hypophyse noun (pituitary gland)
German
1 entries- Hypophyse noun (pituitary gland)
Gujarati
1 entries- કફોત્પાદક adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
Icelandic
3 entries- dingul adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- dingull noun (pituitary gland)
- heiladingull noun (pituitary gland)
Ido
1 entries- hipofizala adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
Indonesian
1 entries- pituitari noun (pituitary gland)
Irish
1 entries- piotútach adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
Marathi
1 entries- पियुषिका ग्रंथी noun (pituitary gland)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- hypofyse noun (pituitary gland)
Polish
4 entries- przysadkowy adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- przysadka noun (pituitary gland)
- przysadka mózgowa noun (pituitary gland)
- przysadka mózgowa z lejkiem noun (pituitary gland together with the pituitary stalk)
Portuguese
3 entries- hipofisário adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- pituitário adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- hipófise noun (pituitary gland)
Russian
1 entries- гипофиз noun (pituitary gland)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- hipofiza noun (pituitary gland)
Spanish
1 entries- pituitario adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
Swedish
1 entries- hypofys noun (pituitary gland)
Ukrainian
2 entries- гіпо́фіз noun (pituitary gland)
- нижній придаток мозку noun (pituitary gland)
Welsh
3 entries- pitwidol adj (of or pertaining to the pituitary gland)
- chwarren bitwidol noun (pituitary gland)
- pitŵitari noun (pituitary gland)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
A tumor of the pituitary gland can cause hypopituitarism.
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This son of Jewish immigrants had a tumor on his pituitary gland that caused his unusual growth.
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The secretion of pituitary gland hormones is controlled by the hypothalamus.
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