Definition of Pinealectomy

1. Noun. (medicine) Surgical removal of the pineal gland. ¹

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Definition of Pinealectomy

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Medical Definition of Pinealectomy

1. Removal of the pineal body. Origin: pineal + G. Ektome, excision (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinealectomy

pineal body
pineal cells
pineal cyst
pineal eye
pineal gland
pineal gland calcification
pineal glands
pineal habenula
pineal recess
pineal region tumours
pineal tumours
pinealectomies
pinealectomize
pinealectomized
pinealectomizes
pinealectomy (current term)
pinealoctomies
pinealocyte
pinealocytes
pinealoma
pinealomas
pinealomata
pinealopathy
pineals
pineapple
pineapple family
pineapple guava
pineapple guavas
pineapple juice
pineapple plant

Literary usage of Pinealectomy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 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)
"... attempted pinealectomy also in very young kittens, but with constantly fatal results. He used the operative method of Lomonaco : by ligature of the ..."

2. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"... state that pinealectomy in young animals results in precocity of development. According to the last-named author,158 male guinea pigs subjected to this ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"... is, if gonadal regression has already ed, pinealectomy results in a rapid re- i reproductive function. Daily injec- 3f melatonin, a putative pineal hor- ..."

4. The Principles of Therapeutics by Oliver Thomas Osborne (1921)
"... better and more rapidly developed, and the females bred earlier after pinealectomy. The symptoms from its removal in the adult animal are unimportant. ..."

5. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1917)
"... from experimental observation on the pineal gland concludes that total experimental pinealectomy is possible in guinea-pigs and rats. ..."

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