neurohypophysial, a. Med.
(ˌnjʊərəʊhaɪpəʊˈfɪzɪəl)
Also -physeal (-ˈfɪzɪəl, -fɪˈsiːəl).
[f. next after hypophysial a.
In sense a, f. neuro- + hypophysis + -al.]
a. Pertaining to the neural tube and the hypophysis (in the embryo). ? Obs.
| 1893 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXXV. 301 The process of constriction by which the tube, or, as it may at once be called, the neuro-hypophysial canal, comes to be entirely separated from the cerebral vesicle has therefore now commenced. Ibid. 306 The hypophysis and the ganglion..have been gradually differentiating themselves from the common neuro-hypophysial tube. 1929 Ibid. LXXII. 79 The whole of the adult nervous system [in Ascidians] is a new development proliferated from a minute remnant of the embryonic neural canal. The region in which this proliferation takes place is usually included in the neurohypophysial canal. |
b. Of or pertaining to the neurohypophysis.
| 1934 Physiol. Abstr. XIX. 481 (heading) The central effect on blood pressure of the neurohypophyseal circulation hormone. 1939 Res. Publ. Assoc. Res. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XX. 444 There is some question..that the antidiuretic substance in the urine is of neurohypophysial origin. 1963 Montgomery & Welbourn Clin. Endocrinol. viii. 336 Any condition which damages the integrity of the neurohypophyseal system causes diabetes insipidus. 1973 C. Ezrin et al. Systematic Endocrinol. iii. 21/2 Recovery follows because damage to the supraoptic neurohypophyseal tract is mild enough to be reversible. 1973 Nature 12 Oct. 287/2 This also means that the rat now has two neurohypophysial hormones and two neurophysins. |