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- noun Plural form of
pituitary .
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Examples
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Talk about a people damned by CDAS — when the virus hit them, it had stuck their pituitaries and thyroids like throttles jammed open.
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Talk about a people damned by CDAS — when the virus hit them, it had stuck their pituitaries and thyroids like throttles jammed open.
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Talk about a people damned by CDAS — when the virus hit them, it had stuck their pituitaries and thyroids like throttles jammed open.
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I dunno about you folks, but I'm seeking out that film about the stolen pituitaries.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: December 2006 Archives 2006
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PINSKY: The bonding hormone or the cuddle hormone or what not, and it's released by our pituitaries.
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He rinsed the vial containing the three pituitaries with salt solution.
Life Support Tess Gerritsen 1997
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By now the trypsin had broken up the tissue and turbid liquid swirled in the vial, which no longer contained solid pituitaries but individual cells in suspension.
Life Support Tess Gerritsen 1997
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Later, he would harvest the remaining pituitaries.
Life Support Tess Gerritsen 1997
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All we know is, our pituitaries stop producing certain hormones as we get older.
Life Support Tess Gerritsen 1997
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On the other hand, mice whose pituitaries had been removed shortly before giving birth to young exhibited little interest in the baby mice.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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