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Definition of Pineal
1. Adjective. Relating to the pineal body. "Pineal hormone"
2. Adjective. Having the form of a pine cone.
Definition of Pineal
1. a. Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.
Definition of Pineal
1. Adjective. In the shape of a pine cone. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to the pineal gland. ¹
3. Noun. The pineal gland. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pineal
1. a gland in the brain [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pineal
1. A gland-like structure in the brain which appears to be the major site of melatonin biosynthesis. The exact role of the pineal remain obscure. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pineal
Literary usage of Pineal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"pineal Melatonin Content throughout the Hamster Estrous Cycle (40649)' ...
The response of hamsters rt photoperiods is dependent upon an pineal gland (2). ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"My own opinion is that the pineal body need not produce an internal secretion,
... The pineal gland in relation to somatic, sexual and mental development. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"The ' pineal eye ' is unusually highly developed, and there can be but little
doubt that it is a functional sense organ. It lies upon the roof of the ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"It receives fibres from the peduncles of the pineal body, and sends off others
... The pineal gland (epiphysis cerebri), so named from its peculiar shape ..."
5. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Again, paramecia subjected to the influence of pineal extract divided more ...
Nevertheless, the results of the aggregate of observers on pineal feeding ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"The pineal body is a metamorphosed organ; not a rudimentary, useless, degenerated,
... The pineal body probably furnishes an internal secretion; ..."
7. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"DISEASES OF THE pineal ORGAN pineal Syndrome.2—By Gaskell the pineal gland (epiphysis)
is said to appear as a vestigial remnant of the paired median eyes of ..."
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