neurohypophysisn.

1912 H. Cushing Pituitary Body & its Disorders i. 2 The tip becomes thickened into the infundibular body (neurohypophysis, or pars nervosa).

1912 H. Cushing Pituitary Body & its Disorders i. 3 The neurohypophysis itself is connected with the tuber cinereum by a stalk which varies in length in different species.

1939 Res. Publ. Assoc. Res. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 20 24 It is convenient to regard the neurohypophysis as being divisible into two major divisions, namely, the neural lobe and the neural stalk.

1954 L. C. Martin & M. Hynes Clin. Endocrinol. (ed. 2) i. 2 The neural division or neuro-hypophysis consists of the pars nervosa or infundibular process, the pituitary stalk or infundibular stem, and the median eminence of the tuber cinereum.

1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxv. 15/2 The neurohypophysis is a point of contact between neurological and hormonal control mechanisms.

1972 Sci. Amer. Nov. 24/3 This double organ..is the pituitary gland, or hypophysis. The part that migrated from the brain is the posterior lobe, or neurohypophysis; the part that migrated from the pharynx is the anterior lobe, or adenohypophysis.

1984 J. R. Tighe & D. R. Davies Pathol. (ed. 4) xxii. 213 The posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis) is the source of antidiuretic hormone (ADH).

1991 Lancet 21 Dec. 1545/1 An intriguing possibility is that the endothelin secreted by the neurohypophysis, like vasopressin, has a systemic vasoconstrictor action.