hypophysectomy

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hypophysectomy

(ˌhaɪpəfɪˈzɛktəmɪ)

n, pl -mies

(Medicine) the surgical removal of the pituitary gland

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hy•poph•y•sec•to•my

(haɪˌpɒf əˈsɛk tə mi, hɪ-)

n., pl. -mies.

surgical excision of the pituitary gland.

[1905–10]

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Noun 1. hypophysectomy - surgical removal of the pituitary gland

ablation, cutting out, extirpation, excision - surgical removal of a body part or tissue

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hy·poph·y·sec·to·my

n. hipofisectomía, extirpación de la glándula pituitaria.

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In the postsellar type which has roomy sinuses, intercarotid distance and thin anterior wall and floor of sella turcica, provides suitable conditions for transsphenoid hypophysectomy and sphenoid sinus posterior wall is behind the sella turcica posterior wall.

The Determination of Sphenoid Sinus Dimensions in Turkish Healthy Adult Subjects: An MRI Study/ Determinacion de las Dimensiones del Seno Esfenoidal en Sujetos Adultos Sanos Turcos: Un Estudio de Resonancia Magnetica

Thyroid carcinogenesis is abolished by giving thyroxine treatment or hypophysectomy immediately after giving a mutagen in rats preventing any TSH-induced growth.

DIETARY PATTERN IN THYROID DISORDERS

The patient underwent endoscopic transsphenoidal resection followed by total hypophysectomy because the diagnosis of pituitary apoplexy was assumed.

ISCHEMIC PITUITARY APOPLEXY, HYPOPITUITARISM AND DIABETES INSIPIDUS: A TRIAD UNIQUE TO NECROTIZING HYPOPHYSITIS

Effects of fasting, pancreatectomy, and hypophysectomy in the yellow eel, Anguilla rostrata.

Protein and lipid metabolism adjustments in silver catfish (Rhamdia quelen) during different periods of fasting and refeeding/ Ajustes no metabolismo de proteinas e lipidios no jundia (Rhamdia quelen) durante diferentes periodos de jejum e realimentacao

Remarkably, it has been established beginning in the late 1970s that the feminizing effect of exogenously administered estrogens on liver gene expression obligatorily required the pituitary in that hypophysectomy blocked this sex-bias effect of estrogens (Figure 1) [30-42].

Smooth Muscle-Specific BCL6+/- Knockout Abrogates Sex Bias in Chronic Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Mice

These findings are in good agreement with the previous studies showed that the GH treatment of tilapia can enhance the survival rate in seawater and maintain hypoosmoregulatory function following hypophysectomy [51], which in turn enhances the performance of salt tolerance in tilapia [54].

Effect of Salinity on Growth Hormone Family and Gonadotropin/Gonadal Axis of Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

Transient nerve damage following intubation for trans-sphenoidal hypophysectomy. Can J Anaesth.

Transient hypoglossal nerve palsy after transoral intubation for general anesthesia

Prostatic citrate production is androgen dependent, since castration and hypophysectomy results in rapid loss of prostatic citrate and seminal fructose.

Effect of Variable Kisspeptin Doses on Prostatic Citric Acid Levels in Male Mice

Aloia, "Effect of hypophysectomy on the proliferation and differentiation of rat bone marrow stromal cells," American Journal of Physiology--Endocrinology and Metabolism, vol.

Mouse Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells Expressing Adipogenic and Osteogenic Transcription Factors Suppress the Macrophage Inflammatory Response

It is not an intubation route appropriate for surgery involving the nose, paranasal sinuses, nasolacrimal ducts, or transphenoidal hypophysectomy. Furthermore, nasotracheal intubation may cause serious complications includingtrauma to nasal structures and epistaxis [5].

Orotracheal Intubation Using the Retromolar Space: A Reliable Alternative Intubation Approach to Prevent Dental Injury

Seasonal variations in sperm productions and sperm quality in male winter flounder, Pleuronectes americanus: the effects of hypophysectomy, pituitary replacement therapy and GnRH-A.

Effects of a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogue (LHRHa) on the reproductive performance of spotted sand bass Paralabrax maculatofasciatus (Percoidei: Serranidae)

Furthermore, in mice model including intact controls, hypophysectomized (HX), ovariectomized (OV), and [HX.sub.+]OV mice, ovariectomy was found to be related with profound bone loss, while hypophysectomy blunted this bone loss due to ovariectomy (4).

Bone Mineral Density in Adolescent Girls with Hypogonadotropic and Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism