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pinealectomy Surg.|pɪniːəˈlɛktəmɪ, paɪniːə-|
[f. pineal a. + -ectomy.]
Excision of the pineal body.
1915Jrnl. Exper. Med. XXII. 240 The purpose of this paper is to report briefly the results of pinealectomy in a series of young puppies and to describe the method which has been evolved for extirpation of the pineal body. 1941Endocrinol. XXVIII. 837 All pinealectomies were performed at the age of 20 to 21 days under ether anesthesia. 1976Nature 5 Feb. 431/2 An experiment showing that pinealectomy somewhat reduced maternal behaviour.
So pineaˈlectomize v. trans., to deprive of the pineal body; pineaˈlectomized ppl. a.
1912Rev. Neurol. & Psychiatry X. 477 When pinealectomised pullets, who had already begun to lay, were isolated with pinealectomised cockerels, their eggs proved fertile on artificial incubation. 1933Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. XXX. 766 Sixteen albino rats..were pinealectomized at about 26 days of age. 1970Sci. Amer. Feb. 44/3 Seven out of 12 pinealectomized rats treated with PCPA displayed sexual excitement. 1972Science 27 Oct. 421/3 At 6 weeks of age, half of the birds in each chamber were pinealectomized. |