PINEAL GLAND


Meaning of PINEAL GLAND in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1712

: a small usually conical appendage of the brain of all craniate vertebrates that functions primarily as an endocrine organ and that in a few reptiles has the essential structure of an eye — called also pineal, pineal body, pineal organ

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