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Decisional Incapacity (health) and pharyngeal pituitary (medicine)


Decisional Incapacity (health)


A condition in which a patient is unable to understand his or her choices or declare personal wishes about his or her care.





pharyngeal pituitary (medicine)


pharyngeal pituitary


The embryonic remnant of the oral end of Rathke's pouch that is cut off from the adenohypophysis by the developing sphenoid bone; composed chiefly of chromophobes and, under normal conditions, considered physiologically inactive.

See: hypophysis.