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- noun surgery the surgical removal of the
hypophysis (pituitary gland )
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- noun surgical removal of the pituitary gland
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Examples
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The use of stereotactic chemical hypophysectomy in the treatment of thalamic pain syndrome.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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It would appear therefore that visual inspection of the sella is not sufficient to insure that the hypophysectomy has been total.
Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems 1977
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It would seem therefore that hypophysectomy diminishes the capacity of the organism to catabolize body protein and to form glucose from this protein.
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After total hypophysectomy, or removal of the pars distalis, when the animals are kept fasting, a severe, and sometimes fatal, hypoglycemia easily occurs.
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These workers believe this to be the fundamental metabolic disturbance produced by hypophysectomy.
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Flores-Morales A, Stahlberg N, Tollet-Egnell P, Lundeberg J, Malek RL, et al. (2001) Microarray analysis of the in vivo effects of hypophysectomy and growth hormone treatment on gene expression in the rat.
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