neurohypophysialadj.
/ˌnjʊərə(ʊ)ˌhʌɪpə(ʊ)ˈfɪzɪəl/, U.S. /ˈˌn(j)ʊroʊˌhaɪpəˈfɪziəl/ 1. Embryology. Designating a tubular structure connecting the developing brain and hypophysis. Now rare or disused.
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1893 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 35 301 The process of constriction by which the tube, or, as it may at once be called, the neuro-hypophysial canal, comes to be entirely separated from the cerebral vesicle has therefore now commenced.
1893 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 35 306 The hypophysis and the ganglion..have been gradually differentiating themselves from the common neuro-hypophysial tube.
1929 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 72 79 The whole of the adult nervous system [in Ascidians] is a new development proliferated from a minute remnant of the embryonic neural canal. The region in which this proliferation takes place is usually included in the neurohypophysial canal.
2. Anatomy and Physiology. Of or relating to the neurohypophysis.
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1934 Physiol. Abstr. 19 481 (title) The central effect on blood pressure of the neurohypophyseal circulation hormone.
1939 Res. Publ. Assoc. Res. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 20 444 There is some question..that the antidiuretic substance in the urine is of neurohypophysial origin.
1963 D. A. D. Montgomery & R. B. Welbourn Clin. Endocrinol. viii. 336 Any condition which damages the integrity of the neurohypophyseal system causes diabetes insipidus.
1973 C. Ezrin et al. Systematic Endocrinol. iii. 21/2 Recovery follows because damage to the supraoptic neurohypophyseal tract is mild enough to be reversible.
1973 Nature 12 Oct. 287/2 This also means that the rat now has two neurohypophysial hormones and two neurophysins.
1989 Lancet 22 Apr. 901/2 The patient with defective hypothalamic osmoreceptors had the neurohypophyseal ‘bright spot’ in the usual position.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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