Phrase guide

pituitary gland

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An endocrine gland in vertabrates, which, in humans, is located at the base of the brain, whose secretions control the other endocrine glands and influence growth, maturation, and metabolism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: glandula pituitaria, hypophysis, master gland, pituitary body

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pituitary, pituitary body, hypophysis

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: endocrine gland, endocrine, ductless gland

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: الغُدَّة النُخَامِيَّة — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Armenian: հիպոֆիզ (hipofiz) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Azerbaijani: beyin artımı — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Azerbaijani: hipofiz — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Catalan: glàndula pituïtària — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Chinese Cantonese: 腦下垂體 /脑下垂体 (nou5 haa6 seoi4 tai2) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Chinese Mandarin: 腦下垂體 /脑下垂体 (nǎoxiàchuítǐ) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Chinese Mandarin: 腦垂體 /脑垂体 — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Chinese Mandarin: 垂體 /垂体 (chuítǐ) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Czech: podvěsek mozkový — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Czech: hypofýza — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Dutch: hypofyse — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Esperanto: hipofizo — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Finnish: aivolisäke — endocrine gland of the brain
  • French: glande pituitaire — endocrine gland of the brain
  • French: hypophyse — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Galician: glándula pituitaria — endocrine gland of the brain
  • German: Hypophyse — endocrine gland of the brain
  • German: Hirnanhangsdrüse — endocrine gland of the brain
  • German: Hirnanhangdrüse — endocrine gland of the brain
  • German: Hirnanhang — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Hebrew: בלוטת יותרת המוח — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Hungarian: agyalapi mirigy — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Icelandic: heiladingull — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Icelandic: dingull — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Ido: hipofizo — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Indonesian: hipofisis — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Irish: faireog phiotútach — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Irish: hipifiseas — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Irish: hipifis — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Italian: ipofisi — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Italian: ghiandola pituitaria — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Japanese: 下垂体 (kasuitai) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Japanese: 脳下垂体 (nōkasuitai) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Kazakh: гипофиз (gipofiz) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Northern Kurdish: hîpofîz — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Latin: glandula pituitaria — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Macedonian: хипофиза (hipofiza) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Māori: repe whakatupu — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Māori: repe tupu — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Mongolian: өнчин тархи (önčin tarxi) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hypofyse — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hypofyse — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Persian: غدهٔ زیرمغزی (ɣodde-ye zīrmaɣzī) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Persian: هیپوفیز (hīpofīz) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Polish: przysadka mózgowa — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Polish: przysadka — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Portuguese: hipófise — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Romanian: hipofiză — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Romanian: glandă hipofiză — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Russian: гипо́физ (gipófiz) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Russian: питуита́рная железа́ (pituitárnaja železá) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Russian: мозгово́й прида́ток (mozgovój pridátok) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Russian: прида́ток мо́зга (pridátok mózga) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Sicilian: ipòfisi — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Spanish: glándula pituitaria — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Swedish: hypofys — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Thai: ต่อมใต้สมอง (dtɔ̀m-dtâi-sà-mɔ̌ɔng) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Turkish: hipofiz — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Ukrainian: гіпо́фіз (hipófiz) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Ukrainian: нижній придаток мозку (nyžnij prydatok mozku) — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Vietnamese: tuyến yên — endocrine gland of the brain
  • Welsh: chwarren bitwidol — endocrine gland of the brain