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Meaning of "pituitaries" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PITUITARIES

pituitaries  [pɪˈtjuːɪtərɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PITUITARIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pituitaries is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PITUITARIES


conservatories
kənˈsɜːvətərɪz
flatteries
ˈflætərɪz
fumitories
ˈfjuːmɪtərɪz
interrogatories
ˌɪntəˈrɒɡətərɪz
lavatories
ˈlævətərɪz
masteries
ˈmɑːstərɪz
monasteries
ˈmɒnəstərɪz
mysteries
ˈmɪstərɪz
oratories
ˈɒrətərɪz
Potteries
ˈpɒtərɪz
presbyteries
ˈprezbɪtərɪz
proletaries
ˈprəʊlɪtərɪz
reformatories
rɪˈfɔːmətərɪz
refractories
rɪˈfræktərɪz
rotaries
ˈrəʊtərɪz
signatories
ˈsɪɡnətərɪz
territories
ˈterətərɪz
tributaries
ˈtrɪbjʊtərɪz
victories
ˈvɪktərɪz
votaries
ˈvəʊtərɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PITUITARIES

pittance
pitted
pitter
pitter-pat
pitter-patter
pitting
pittite
pittosporum
Pittsburgh
pituita
pituitary
pituitary body
pituitary extract
pituitary gland
pituitrin
pituri
pity
pity party
pitying
pityingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE PITUITARIES

accessories
anniversaries
beneficiaries
binaries
boundaries
canaries
commentaries
diaries
dictionaries
documentaries
itineraries
libraries
mercenaries
missionaries
obituaries
ovaries
salaries
secretaries
subsidiaries
summaries
varies

Synonyms and antonyms of pituitaries in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pituitaries» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PITUITARIES

Find out the translation of pituitaries to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pituitaries from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pituitaries» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

垂体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pituitarias
570 millions of speakers

English

pituitaries
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pituitaries
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pituitaries
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гипофизы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pituitaries
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pituitaries
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hypophyses
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pituitari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hypophysen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

下垂体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뇌하수체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pituitaries
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pituitaries
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pituitaries
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिट्यूटरीज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

salyaları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pituitaries
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przysadki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гіпофізи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pituitaries
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βλεννογόνων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pituitaries
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hypofyser
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pituitaries
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pituitaries

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PITUITARIES»

The term «pituitaries» is normally little used and occupies the 140.704 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PITUITARIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pituitaries» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pituitaries» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pituitaries

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PITUITARIES»

Discover the use of pituitaries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pituitaries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Biological Actions of Sex Hormones
Smith & Dortzbach (1929) implanted pituitaries from foetal pigs into immature female mice. With the pituitaries of foetal pigs having a crown-rump length of 14 to 15 cm., no response was obtained; those from embryos measuring 18 cm. or more ...
Harold Burrows, 2013
2
Pituitary Today II: New Molecular, Physiological and ...
cell types were analyzed, PIT-expressing cells were found in significantly increased numbers in the RET KO pituitaries, while SF-1 (gonadotroph) cells were identical in number in the KO as in the wild type. Finally, somatotrophs were the only ...
Eduardo Arzt, Marcello D. Bronstein, Mirtha Guitelman, 2010
3
The Genetics of the Mouse
As the genital system of the untreated dwarfs is better developed than in rats which have been entirely deprived of their pituitaries, Smith & MacDowell (1931) suggested that only the growth- promoting hormones are absent or reduced in dwarf ...
4
The Pituitary Gland: Anterior pituitary
All authors agree that growth in the rat is not supported normally by heterotopic pituitaries (May, 1935; Cutuly, 1941 ; Schweizer, Charipper and Haterius, 1936; Westman and Jacobsohn, 1940a; Martinovitch, 1950; Nikitovitch-Winer and ...
Geoffrey Wingfield Harris, Bernard T. Donovan, 1966
5
Reproductive Biotechnology in Finfish Aquaculture
In studying the gonadotropic functions of the pituitary gland in vertebrates, he injected female fish with ground pituitaries from another species and observed that the females underwent ovulation. Professor B.A. Houssay, an Argentinean, was ...
C.-S. Lee, E.M. Donaldson, 2001
6
Neurobiology of Cytokines: Methods in Neurosciences
Pituitaries are obtained from male SpragueDawley CD rats (300–350 g body weight). After ether anesthesia, rats are decapitated and the skulls opened with two lateralcutsparalleltothe sagittal commissure.The thecaisremovedandthe brain is ...
Errol B. De Souza, 1993
7
Lipotropin and Related Peptides
that extracts of anterior pituitaries could produce ketosis. In 1936, Best and Campbell found. repeating these experiments, that such extracts produce body weight loss and hepatic lipid accumulation. Later, when individual hormones were ...
Choh Hao Li, 2012
8
Molecular Endocrinology of Fish: Volume 13: Molecular ...
D. Functional Roles of GHRH and PACAP It is well known that GHRH directly stimulates the release of growth hormone from the pituitaries of human, cow, pig, and rat (see Campbell and Scanes, 1992; Frohman et al., 1992). Within the lower  ...
Nancy Sherwood, Choy Choy Leong Hew, 1994
9
Hormonal Steroids: Proceedings of the Sixth International ...
Nine Snell and five Ames pituitaries of each phenotype were labeled for 4h in [ 3SS]-methionine (400 pCi/ml). Each group was pooled and homogenized, and an aliquot was subjected to two-dimensional electrophoresis. The circles mark the ...
V. H. T. James, J. R. Pasqualini, 1983
10
Regulation and Mode ofAction of Thyroid Hormones: Volume 10: ...
No dilference in pituitary function could be seen when the transplants were made from donors ranging from twelve-dayold foetuses to two-month-old adults, whether male or female pituitaries were used, or whether one-half, one, or four ...
CIBA Foundation Symposium, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PITUITARIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pituitaries is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Increase in the titer of lentiviral vectors expressing potassium …
... cells using recombinant adenovirus vectors in vitro and in vivo in normal and estrogen/sulpiride-induced hyperplasic anterior pituitaries. «BMC Blogs Network, May 15»
2
Bodybuilders and fetishists are buying breast milk
... visiting relatives, and even dirty laundry, every time we nurse our babies, the love hormone oxytocin courses out of our pituitaries like a warm ... «Chicago Sun-Times, Feb 15»
3
20-year-old in China looks like a young child due to a pituitary tumour
'We used to treat people with this condition with pituitaries from cadavers and dead people, but that led to complications. 'But luckily now we ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
4
NIH researchers link chromosome region to gigantism
Its activity was up to 1,000 times stronger in the pituitaries of children with the duplication than in the pituitaries of typically developing children. «National Institutes of Health, Dec 14»
5
Meet The Man Who Grows Eyes
Sasai's lab-grown pituitaries form from interactions between tissues from two distinct regions of the embryo; their meeting causes part of the ... «io9, Aug 14»
6
The Man Who Grew Eyes From Scratch
Sasai's lab-grown pituitaries form from interactions between tissues from two distinct regions of the embryo; their meeting causes part of the ... «Gizmodo Australia, Aug 14»
7
Questcor takeover appears set
... the combined company and sharply reduce taxes on Questcor's already high-margin drug, which is made from pig pituitaries and prescribed ... «OCRegister, Aug 14»
8
How Memory Speaks
Cases have also occurred among children with short stature who were treated with growth hormone extracted from human pituitaries harvested ... «The New York Review of Books, May 14»
9
Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc (QCOR): Citron 'Must Read Report'
Acthar is an extraction of porcine pituitaries. It's an undisclosed composition, so that's a trade secret. The manufacturing process is also a trade ... «ValueWalk, Feb 14»
10
Down among the dead men: Best-selling author Simon Winchester …
A research hospital had need of them – pituitaries produce a multitude of hormones, including the one that makes us grow, and I proved myself ... «The Independent, Jan 14»

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