How to Use pituitary gland in a Sentence

pituitary gland

noun

• Edouard had a pituitary gland tumor at the base of the brain.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 31 Jan. 2018
• The pituitary gland is just below the middle of the brain, at the level of the eyes.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022
• Was the pituitary gland in his brain unable to make the hormone?
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• In 2003, doctors found that Melanie had a benign tumor of the pituitary gland, about the size of a plum.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 28 July 2022
• The pituitary gland, which is located at the base of the brain, produces HGH.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Some of us have to be the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, the bile duct.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• If that was high, the patient would need imaging of his brain to look for a tiny tumor on the pituitary gland.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Why didn’t the testicles evolve where the pituitary gland is?
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022
• Shauna Rae had a form of cancer as a young child, which stunted the growth of her pituitary gland.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
• Scans show tumors all over his skull, in the fluid of the lining of his brain and surrounding the pituitary gland.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2021
• More scans showed tumors all over his skull, in the fluid of the lining of his brain and surrounding the pituitary gland.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Dec. 2020
• Melanie had been battling the tumor on her pituitary gland since 2003.
  — Daniella Genovese, Fox News, 27 July 2022
• Shauna had cancer as a child, which stunted the growth of her pituitary gland.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
• More scans showed tumors all over his skull, in the fluid of the lining of his brain, surrounding the pituitary gland.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2020
• While your pituitary gland creates a lot of HGH as a child, this production slows with age.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• The chaos starts in the brain, where the flood of new hormones alerts the hormone managers, the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, that the body has too much testosterone.
  — William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• When that lactic acid is produced in the body, the pituitary gland secretes growth hormone in response.
  — Outside Online, 13 May 2021
• Facial Changes Dearborn reassured the man that the tumor wasn’t cancer but an overgrowth of the part of the pituitary gland, at the base of the brain, that makes growth hormone.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• The pituitary gland sends signals to the testicles, telling them how much testosterone to produce.
  — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2022
• Hormones made by the pituitary gland and hypothalamus, which are parts of the brain, play a key role in making sperm.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health, 12 May 2023
• Testosterone is produced by the gonads, or testicles, but it’s controlled by the pituitary gland in the brain.
  — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2022
• Each model brain looks like a shriveled pituitary gland that has been pulled out through someone’s nose in a horror movie.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
• One was prolactin, a hormone produced by the pituitary gland.
  — Jennifer Chesak, Verywell Health, 24 June 2024
• This hormone is released by your pituitary gland to trigger the thyroid to produce T3 and T4.
  — Hallie Levine, Health.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• These act on the pituitary gland to suppress ovulation.
  — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• According to the Mayo Clinic, a pituitary tumor forms in the pituitary gland at the base of the brain and can cause changes in someone's hormone levels.
  — Daniella Genovese, Fox News, 27 July 2022
• This disorder is caused by an abnormal growth on the pituitary gland of the brain, a tumor that makes excess growth hormone.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• The tumors had invaded his entire body this time, on his shoulder, lung, back, hip, skull, in the fluid of the lining of his brain and surrounding the pituitary gland.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2020
• Prolactin is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland that enables moms to breastfeed their babies.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 12 Aug. 2024
• These are guided by hormones from the adrenal and pituitary glands as part of the classic stress-response system, to ease pain and facilitate escape.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024