† hyˈpophysal, a. Obs.
[f. hypophysis + -al.]
= hypophysial a.
| 1877 Gray's Anat. (ed. 8) p. cxxx, Others refer the hypophysal part of the pituitary body to epiblastic elements derived from the buccal part of the epiblast only. 1892 C. S. Minot Human Embryol. (1897) xxvi. 574 The hypophysal diverticulum now elongates and its upper end expands to a considerable vesicle. |