Hypophysis

noun

2. The pituitary body of the brain, which is lodged in the sella turcica of the sphenoid bone, and attached to the tuber cinereum of the brain by the infundibulum.
3. In bot: In angiosperms, the layer of cells in the embryo resulting from the successive fission of the penultimate cell of the suspensor, which gives rise to the primary root and root-cap.
4. In mosses, an enlargement of the pedicel at the base of the capsule. Also called, less correctly, apophysis. See cut under Andreæa.
5. See Pituitary body, under pituitary.