Usually means: Gland controlling hormones, brain located.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word hypophysis:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypophysis: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypophysis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hypophysis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hypophysis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hypophysis: Vocabulary.com
  6. hypophysis: Wordnik
  7. Hypophysis: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. hypophysis: Wiktionary
  9. hypophysis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hypophysis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hypophysis: Dictionary.com
  12. hypophysis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. hypophysis: Rhymezone
  14. Hypophysis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. hypophysis: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hypophysis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. hypophysis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Hypophysis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  19. Hypophysis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hypophysis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypophysis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. hypophysis: Sound Alike Words
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. hypophysis: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)

(Note: See hypophyses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hypophysis)

noun:  (anatomy) The pituitary gland.
noun:  (botany) The top cell of the suspensor in a dicot embryo, which will differentiate to form part of the root cap.

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