The pituitary gland is an endocrine gland that secretes hormones that regulate many other glands [GO]. An endocrine gland located ventral to the diencephalon and derived from mixed neuroectodermal and non neuroectodermal origin [ZFIN]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituitary_gland http://zfin.org/curator ]
Synonyms: pituitary glandula pituitaria pituitary body
Term information
- AAO:0010536
- BTO:0001073
- EMAPA:35998
- MAT:0000077
- SCTID:181125003
- EHDAA2:0001471
- BM:Die-Hy-HY
- MA:0000176
- EFO:0000857
- EHDAA:4477
- GAID:457
- ZFA:0000118
- MESH:D010902
- Wikipedia:Pituitary_gland
- DHBA:10505
- BAMS:Pit
- HBA:4634
- EHDAA:2183
- MIAA:0000077
- CALOHA:TS-0798
- FMA:13889
- NCIT:C12399
- VHOG:0000143
- TAO:0000118
- BAMS:PIT
- XAO:0000017
- EV:0100132
- BIRNLEX:1353
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, organ_slim
Terminology note: hypophysis and pituitary gland are often used informally as synonyms, but the hypophysis also includes the small infundibular or pituitary stalk[Neumann 2020]
Term relations
- endocrine gland
- has part some folliculostellate cell
- has part some neurohypophysis
- has part some adenohypophysis
- contributes to morphology of some diencephalon
- part of some diencephalon
- capable of part of some gamete generation
- immediate transformation of some future pituitary gland
- has part some melanocyte stimulating hormone secreting cell