英语词汇“pineal gland”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. Designating a small outgrowth of the brain in vertebrates, lying behind and above the third ventricle in humans and on the dorsal surface of the brain in lower vertebrates, which has an endocrine function, secretes melatonin in many vertebrates, and is typically involved in regulating sexual development, metabolism, and circadian rhythms. Chiefly in pineal body, pineal gland, †pineal kernel, pineal organ.

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1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Anat. Brain in Five Treat. xiv. 106 Pineal Glandula or Kernel in form of a Pine-apple, called also conarium [L. glandula pinealis].

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 275. ¶4 The Pineal Gland, which many of our Modern Philosophers suppose to be the Seat of the Soul.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. iv. 99 Des Cartes, observing that the pineal gland is the only part of the brain that is single, was determined by this to make that gland the soul's habitation.

1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 44 The upper part of each lateral boundary is the optic thalamus, with the peduncles of the pineal body extending along it.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 343 The pineal gland..has been supposed to represent either the region of closure of the neural folds, or else, an unpaired eye.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 181 The pineal body, a dark rounded body, lies in front of the optic lobes.

1958 A. B. Lerner et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 80 2587/1 We wish to report isolation from beef pineal glands of the active factor that can lighten skin color and inhibit MSH. It is suggested that this substance be called melatonin.

1971 J. A. Kappers in G. E. W. Wolstenholme & J. Knight Pineal Gland 22 The mammalian pineal gland is an end organ of the peripheral sympathetic system.

2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 273/1 Sahasrara, in yoga, the supreme chakra or psychic centre, often identified with the pineal gland.

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释义	> as lemmas pineal gland 1. Designating a small outgrowth of the brain in vertebrates, lying behind and above the third ventricle in humans and on the dorsal surface of the brain in lower vertebrates, which has an endocrine function, secretes melatonin in many vertebrates, and is typically involved in regulating sexual development, metabolism, and circadian rhythms. Chiefly in pineal body, pineal gland, †pineal kernel, pineal organ. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > pineal gland pine kernel1598 pine-glandule1615 conarium1656 pineal gland1681 epiphysis1882 pineal1911 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [adjective] > pineal gland pineal1681 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Anat. Brain in Five Treat. xiv. 106 Pineal Glandula or Kernel in form of a Pine-apple, called also conarium [L. glandula pinealis]. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 275. ¶4 The Pineal Gland, which many of our Modern Philosophers suppose to be the Seat of the Soul. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. iv. 99 Des Cartes, observing that the pineal gland is the only part of the brain that is single, was determined by this to make that gland the soul's habitation. 1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 44 The upper part of each lateral boundary is the optic thalamus, with the peduncles of the pineal body extending along it. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 343 The pineal gland..has been supposed to represent either the region of closure of the neural folds, or else, an unpaired eye. 1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 181 The pineal body, a dark rounded body, lies in front of the optic lobes. 1958 A. B. Lerner et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 80 2587/1 We wish to report isolation from beef pineal glands of the active factor that can lighten skin color and inhibit MSH. It is suggested that this substance be called melatonin. 1971 J. A. Kappers in G. E. W. Wolstenholme & J. Knight Pineal Gland 22 The mammalian pineal gland is an end organ of the peripheral sympathetic system. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 273/1 Sahasrara, in yoga, the supreme chakra or psychic centre, often identified with the pineal gland. extracted from pinealadj.n. < as lemmas
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