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Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
acellular bone tissue 
adenohypophysis +  
adrenal/interrenal gland +  
arthropod neurohemal organ +  
bone condensation 
calcareous tooth +  
camera-type eye +  
cellular bone tissue 
chorioretinal region +  
ciliary muscle 
corpus allatum 
corpus luteum 
corpuscles of Stannius 
cranial neural crest +  
dermis +  
diencephalon +  
digestive system gland +  
ear +  
Eimer's organ 
elasmoid scale +  
facial nerve +  
future neurohypophysis +  
glial limiting membrane 
hair follicle matrix region 
heart +  
incisor region of dentition 
inner cambium layer of periosteum 
inner limiting layer of retina 
jaw region +  
lower jaw region +  
median eminence of neurohypophysis +  
midbrain +  
mole 
nasal tentacle 
neural crest +  
neural crest-derived structure +  
neuroendocrine gland +  
neurohypophysis +  
nose +  
odontode scale 
parasympathetic nervous system +  
parathyroid gland +  
parenchyma of thyroid gland 
periocular mesenchyme 
pharyngeal arch +  
pharyngeal arch artery +  
pineal body +  
pituitary gland +  
The pituitary gland is an endocrine gland that secretes hormones that regulate many other glands [GO]. An endocrine gland located ventral to the diencephalon and derived from mixed neuroectodermal and non neuroectodermal origin [ZFIN].
retrocerebral complex +  
skull +  
spinal cord +  
stratum basale of epidermis +  
stria vascularis of cochlear duct +  
thymus +  
thyroid gland +  
trunk neural crest +  
tunica fibrosa of eyeball +  
ultimobranchial body +  
upper jaw region +  
upper respiratory tract +  
urophysis 
uvea +  
vagus nerve +  
vomerine dentition +  

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: pituitary ;   pituitary body
Broad Synonyms: Hp
Related Synonyms: glandula pituitaria ;   hypophysis ;   hypophysis cerebri
Xrefs: AAO:0010536 ;   BAMS:PIT ;   BM:Die-Hy-HY ;   BTO:0001073 ;   CALOHA:TS-0798 ;   DHBA:10505 ;   EFO:0000857 ;   EHDAA2:0001471 ;   EHDAA:2183 ;   EHDAA:4477 ;   EMAPA:35998 ;   EV:0100132 ;   FMA:13889 ;   GAID:457 ;   HBA:4634 ;   MA:0000176 ;   MAT:0000077 ;   MESH:D010902 ;   MIAA:0000077 ;   NCI:C12399 ;   SCTID:181125003 ;   TAO:0000118 ;   UMLS:C0032005 ;   VHOG:0000143 ;   Wikipedia:Pituitary_gland ;   XAO:0000017 ;   ZFA:0000118 ;   birnlex:1353 ;   neuronames:399
Definition Sources: Wikipedia:Pituitary_gland, ZFIN:curator

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