anterior pituitary

1. 1.

   the anterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature

   Synonymsanterior pituitary glandadenohypophysis

   Broaderendocrine gland

   Part ofpituitary

   Partspars distilis

Questions about anterior pituitary

What does anterior pituitary mean?

anterior pituitary means "the anterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature".

What is another word for anterior pituitary?

Close synonyms include anterior pituitary gland, adenohypophysis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anterior pituitary a common word?

anterior pituitary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.