posterior pituitary

Questions about posterior pituitary

What does posterior pituitary mean?

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

What is another word for posterior pituitary?

Close synonyms include posterior pituitary gland, neurohypophysis, pars nervosa. 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 posterior pituitary a common word?

posterior 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.