Preferred Label : Pituitary gland;
FMA definition : Lobular organ, each instance of which is an epithelial body located at the base of
some brain in the sella turcica, attached by a stalk to some hypothalamus, from which
it receives an important neural and vascular outflow. It consists of two lobes of
differing embryonic origin, the anterior lobe (adenohypophysis), which secretes most
of the hormones, and the posterior lobe (neurohypophysis), which stores and releases
neurohormones that it receives from the hypothalamus.;
Synonyme FMA : Hypophysis cerebri; Pituitary;
Origin ID : 13889;
UMLS CUI : C0032005;
Arterial supply of
- Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Contained in
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- False automatic mappings
- Partie Systemique FMA
- RADLEX concept(s)
- Regional part
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Venous supply
Lobular organ, each instance of which is an epithelial body located at the base of
some brain in the sella turcica, attached by a stalk to some hypothalamus, from which
it receives an important neural and vascular outflow. It consists of two lobes of
differing embryonic origin, the anterior lobe (adenohypophysis), which secretes most
of the hormones, and the posterior lobe (neurohypophysis), which stores and releases
neurohormones that it receives from the hypothalamus.
