anterior pituitary gland

What does anterior pituitary gland mean?

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

What is another word for anterior pituitary gland?

Close synonyms include anterior pituitary, 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 gland a common word?

anterior pituitary gland 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anterior pituitary gland come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.