pars intermedia

1. 1.

   a thin piece of tissue that has become part of the posterior pituitary

   Broaderendocrine gland

   Part ofposterior pituitary

Questions about pars intermedia

What does pars intermedia mean?

pars intermedia means "a thin piece of tissue that has become part of the posterior pituitary".

Is pars intermedia a common word?

pars intermedia 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.