- 1腦下垂體（台灣慣用全稱；對岸常簡稱垂體）
The pituitary is a tiny organ at the base of your brain. It makes hormones, which are chemical messages that help control how your body grows and develops, and how many other systems stay in balance. Doctors call it a ; you will also hear pituitary , which is the same thing. Though actually, the name is a historical wrong turn: people once believed this organ sent — the wet stuff in your nose — down to the nose, so they named it from a Latin word for phlegm. That idea was wrong, but the name stuck. You will meet the word in biology class and at the doctor’s. Everyday English can just say “a small in your brain” if the long word is new.
組成A learned borrowing from Latin pituitarius (“mucous”), from pituita (“mucus, phlegm”). The gland got this name because people once believed it sent mucus to the nose. First used as an adjective in the 1610s, and as a noun by 1899.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pituitaryadj/pɪˈtjuːɪt(ə)ɹi/
- 1
anatomymedicinesciencesOf or relating to the pituitary gland.
- 2
Mucous.
pituitarynoun/pɪˈtjuːɪt(ə)ɹi/
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe pituitary gland; sometimes including together with the pituitary stalk.
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medicinesciencesAn extract from the pituitary gland.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。