How to Use pituitary in a Sentence

pituitary

1 of 2 adjective
  • Shauna was diagnosed with pituitary dwarfism after battling brain cancer as a child.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Six of the cases are meningiomas, two are gliomas, two are pituitary adenomas, and one is a schwannoma of the optic nerve.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 14 June 2026
  • But if the receptors in the pituitary sense that there’s too much testosterone in the bloodstream, that forms a negative feedback loop.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Her symptoms and physical features suggest the pituitary tumour caused her death.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
  • The progestin suppresses two pituitary hormones that control the testes, the organs that produce sperm.
    — Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Two thick and purple optic nerves snake crossed over the pea-size pituitary gland, a sort of control center for the endocrine system that rests beneath the brain.
    — National Geographic, 29 July 2016
  • While this is considered a trait of piety and beauty in art, it may have been caused by Simonetta’s pituitary tumor.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
  • To shore up their connective tissue, steroid users might inject extra growth hormone on top of what their pituitary glands typically pump out.
    — William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Prolactin blood test Prolactin is related to your thyroid and pituitary function.
    — Jennifer Gerson, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
  • The pituitary stops making two key hormones that serve as messengers to reproductive organs.
    — William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In one post, Shauna Rae explained the importance of raising awareness for pituitary dwarfism.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Low levels of estradiol can point to PCOS or pituitary issues.
    — Jennifer Gerson, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Lesick was diagnosed with pituitary dwarfism which affects less than 8,000 in the United States.
    — Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • That medication up-regulates the body's pituitary fuels and stimulates the testes.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health, 12 May 2023
  • For example, if your low testosterone is caused by a pituitary tumor, removing the tumor may be all that's needed to restore normal hormone levels.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • In some cases, surgery is required to remove an adrenal tumor, or radiation therapy is needed to shrink a growing pituitary tumor.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
  • Another was in danger of going blind after being diagnosed with a pituitary tumor brought on by pregnancy hormones.
    — Nina Martin, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2019
  • If cortisol levels are determined to be pathologically high, then imaging of the pituitary or adrenal glands might be conducted.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, a pituitary tumor forms in the pituitary gland at the base of the brain and can cause changes in someone's hormone levels.
    — Daniella Genovese, Fox News, 27 July 2022
  • The 22-year-old — whose pituitary dwarfism makes her body appearance more similar to that of an 8-year-old — has had a lifelong interest in animals.
    — Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Brain cancer survivors were at risk for a slew of disorders, particularly pituitary and thyroid dysfunction, as well as diabetes.
    — Ian Graber-Stiehl, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2018
  • The doctor referred Woolaston for testing, resulting in her being diagnosed with a pituitary tumor.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The series follows Shauna, a 23-year-old with pituitary dwarfism, and the challenges of living with the condition that left her standing at less than 4 feet tall.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Lesick was diagnosed with pituitary dwarfism which affects fewer than 8,000 people in the United States.
    — Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Low cortisol can cause fatigue, memory issues, and cognitive decline, often linked to adrenal or pituitary disorders.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Minkin says that patients with persistent irregularities can talk to their doctor about having their thyroid and pituitary hormone levels tested.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
  • But in 2003, Wobig was diagnosed with acromegaly, a pituitary disorder that required surgery and radiation.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2018
  • In 1930, Hogben injected Xenopus with extracts from an ox’s pituitary gland—a pea-sized hormone factory at the base of the brain.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 4 May 2017
  • The most common cause of too much growth hormone release is a benign tumor of the pituitary gland, according to the National Institutes of Health.
    — Fox News, 31 Aug. 2010
  • The researchers jump-started the system's chemical communications with an injection of pituitary hormone.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 1 June 2017

pituitary

2 of 2 noun
  • And the CT scan revealed a growth about the size of a lima bean on his pituitary.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The thyroid works like a furnace and the pituitary as a thermostat.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2018
  • Puberty starts when your brain starts to release a hormone that activates your body’s pituitary and gonadal glands.
    — Emily Price, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
  • In utero, her pituitary gland shifted in her brain, preventing her optic nerves from fully developing.
    — John Otis, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017
  • When levels go up, the pituitary senses this and reduces TSH production.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2018
  • At the time, scientists knew that the urine of pregnant women contained hormones that were made in the pituitary and that affected the development of ovaries.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 4 May 2017
  • Joint and muscle pain, and rheumatoid arthritis can also occur, and the immune system can also attack vital glands like the thyroid and pituitary.
    — Denise Grady and Andrew Pollack, New York Times, 30 July 2016
  • The body’s stress response is regulated by the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis.
    — Rod McCullom, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Among many other critical functions, this grouping of the brain’s hypothalamus and the pituitary and adrenal glands regulates how the body processes stress.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
  • If there is such fine control between the pituitary and thyroid, manually trying to simulate that feedback mechanism by taking one pill a day (levothyroxine) seems impossible.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Measuring the thyroid hormone itself, levothyroxine, and thyroid stimulating hormone, made in the pituitary, are adequate to monitor the thyroid level in most people.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The treatments were successful, but when Lesick was 5, doctors discovered that her pituitary (which is responsible for producing hormones in the body that control metabolism and growth) had been rendered dormant.
    — Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Thyroid stimulating hormone, TSH, is made by the pituitary and is abnormally high when the brain senses too low a hormone level and is abnormally low when the brain senses too high a thyroid level.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 June 2022
  • The irregular periods are caused by the disruption of the neuroendocrine hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis, which can occur from concussion, according to the study.
    — Daniella Emanuel, CNN, 3 July 2017
  • His last album, 2024’s Dostrotime, essentially threw all that together with the pituitary-pounding tempos and aggressive programming of classic Squarepusher, creating a kind of maximalist career summation.
    — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 9 Apr. 2026

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