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Significats de pineal gland en anglès

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пинеальная железа
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Small endocrine gland found in most vertebrates, which produces melatonin; in humans, located in the epithalamus, in a groove where the two halves of the thalamus join; its shape and size resembles a pine nut, after which it is named.

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Developmentally, the pineal gland is considered as a part of the epithalamus.
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The mind has no observable natural relation to the pineal gland.
Theodicy / Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and...
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The pineal gland has some definite relation to muscle chemistry not yet probed.
The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
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I felt it in my brain stem, my cortex, my goddamn pineal gland.
Brains: a zombie memoir
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A low-grade astrocytoma confined to the pineal gland is reported.
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Is there really a soul sitting aloof in the pineal gland, as Descartes held?
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
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The pineal gland exerts a depressive influence on CNS excitability.
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Blasius, Diemerbroeck, and the Ephemerides, speak of stones in the location of the pineal gland.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The pineal gland maintains the circadian rhythm in the body by secreting the hormone melatonin.
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It is the key-enzyme responsible of the nocturnal rhythm of melatonin production in the pineal gland.
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The pineal gland is a small pinecone-shaped and functionally endocrine structure located in the epithalamus region.
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In those of any class over fifteen, no response has been elicited by feeding pineal gland.
The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
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The Cartesians think it's in the pineal gland-
Quicksilver
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Melatonin is actually a hormone, made in a part of the brain called the pineal gland.
Wired
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In addition to decreased testicular activity, the pineal gland is also involved in establishing conditions for torpor.
Pubmed
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The cause of the whole bizarre tragedy was found to be a tumor of the pineal gland.
The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...