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What is pituitary gland?

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What is pituitary gland?
posted Jun 30, 2018 by Haseeb Nabi Naik

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Your pituitary gland is about the size of a pea and is situated in a bony hollow, just behind the bridge of your nose. It is attached to the base of your brain by a thin stalk.

The pituitary gland is very important as it takes messages from the brain (via a gland called the hypothalamus) and uses these messages to produce hormones that affect many parts of the body, including stimulating all the other hormone-producing glands to produce their own hormones. For this reason it is often referred to as the ‘master gland’.

answer Jul 1, 2018 by Salil Agrawal
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