"Hypophysis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the haemal position of the cerebral ganglion in Annelids by supposing that it degenerated and disappeared altogether in the Annelidan ancestor of Vertebrates, and that accordingly it had no homologue in the Vertebrate nervous system. Beard put forward also the ingenious theory that the hypophysis represents the old ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
... J., AND KUBOTA, S.: On the presence of histamine in the hypophysis cerebri and other tissues of the body and its occurrence among the hydrolytic decomposition products of proteins. J. Pharmacol. and ...
— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy
... ceptors control these activities, one would expect to find that they control also those organs whose function is the production of energizing internal secretions. Over these organs—the thyroid, the adrenals, the hypophysis—the contact ceptors have no control. Prolonged laboratory experimentation seems to prove this postulate. According to our observations, no amount of physical trauma inflicted upon animals will cause hyperthyroidism or increased adrenalin ...
— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile |
