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Excerpt from The American Anatomical Memoirs, Vol. 1: The Morphology and Evolutional Significance of the Pineal Body
Because of its resemblance to a pine cone, it was called by Chaussier63 and Willis429 the corpus pineale. It has been called by the Germans the Zirbel and Zirbeldruse, a designation which doubtless has led to the more or less general use at present of the term pineal gland. Several of the early writers called it the glandula superior in contradistinction to the pituitary gland which was referred to as the glandula inferior.
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