In humans, both the thyroid gland and the intermediate lobe ( pars intermedia ) of the pituitary gland contain colloid follicles.

Although rudimentary in humans ( and often considered part of the anterior pituitary ), the intermediate lobe located between the anterior and posterior pituitary is important to many animals.

The intermediate lobe produces melanocyte-stimulating hormone ( MSH ), although this function is often ( imprecisely ) attributed to the anterior pituitary.

In general, the intermediate lobe tends to be well developed, and may equal the remainder of the anterior pituitary in size.

Closely associated with the pouch are three distinct clusters of glandular tissue, corresponding to the intermediate lobe, and the rostral and proximal portions of the anterior pituitary.

* Melanotrope cells of the intermediate lobe of the pituitary gland

However, in humans, the intermediate lobe is but a few cell layers thick and indistinct ; as a result, it is often considered part of the anterior pituitary.

The melanocyte-stimulating hormones ( collectively referred to as MSH or intermedins ) are a class of peptide hormones that are produced by cells in the intermediate lobe of the pituitary gland.

Signals being sent from the limbic lobe to the hippocampal formations can go via the archicortex as an intermediate.

The first capability is represented by a combination of manned bombers, carrier-based aircraft, and intercontinental and intermediate range missiles.

To maintain their intermediate position in the larger society, it is not only necessary that members of this population be `` visible '', but that their numbers be great enough to be recognized as a separate, distinct grouping or system in society.

Towards the end of an intermediate or major rise, while the top is forming on the price chart, it is frequently observed that the odd-lot buying increases sharply.

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

In fact, a cash purchase of a corporation's stock followed by liquidation might also be an effective way to transfer a claim for refund if the Kimbell-Diamond doctrine is not applied to eliminate the intermediate step.

That is, it goes to the intermediate appellate court, followed by the highest court.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

Each toe bears a large, robust nail which is somewhat flattened and shovel-like, and appears to be intermediate between a claw and a hoof.

Abugidas were long considered to be syllabaries or intermediate between syllabaries and alphabets, and the term " syllabics " is retained in the name of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

The plateau is masked by intermediate mountain ranges and extinct volcanoes.

In Abrahamic religions the view is generally held that one goes to hell or heaven depending on one's deeds and / or faith while on Earth, or predestination and Unconditional election, or to the intermediate state to await the Resurrection of the Dead.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, Hell, the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, a rapture, a tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth, and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

In the intermediate state the awareness is very flexible, so it is important to be virtuous, adopt a positive attitude, and avoid negative ideas.

In quantum field theory, this process is allowed only as an intermediate quantum state for times short enough that the violation of energy conservation can be accommodated by the uncertainty principle.

Ammonius cites Iamblichus who said knowledge is intermediate between the knower and the known, since it is the activity of the knower concerning the known.

If an antibody is developed to stabilize a molecule that's similar to an unstable intermediate of another ( potentially unrelated ) reaction, the developed antibody will enzymatically bind to and stabilize the intermediate state, thus catalyzing the reaction.

In the genera Aggregata, Atoxoplasma, Cystoisospora, Schellackia and Toxoplasma the original is now definitive while in Akiba, Babesiosoma, Babesia, Haemogregarina, Haemoproteus, Hepatozoon, Karyolysus, Leucocytozoon, Plasmodium, Sarcocystis and Theileria, the original hosts are now intermediate.

Shiozawa, based on much more general model, succeeded in giving a new explanation on why the traded volume increases for intermediate goods when the transport cost decreases.

The Ricardian trade theory was now constructed in a form to include intermediate input trade for the most general case of many countries and many goods.

In a general sense object code is a sequence of statements or instructions in a computer language, usually a machine code language ( i. e., 1's and 0's ) or an intermediate language such as RTL.

In general the targeting peptide is of intermediate character to the two specific ones.

# Thematic: A thematic approach, where chapters or sections concentrate on one particular area of interest, is of more general use to an intermediate user.

The highest courts of New Hampshire and West Virginia simply do not have an intermediate appellate court between themselves and the trial court of general jurisdiction, while the intermediate Court of Appeals of Virginia hears appeals as a matter of right only in family and administrative cases.

In New York, the " Supreme Court " is the trial court of general unlimited jurisdiction and the intermediate appellate court is called the " Supreme Court — Appellate Division ".

The " intermediate " rocks include those characterized by the general absence of both quartz and olivine.

In general, the broadening is intermediate between Lorentzian and Gaussian ; for an alloy it is somewhat closer to Gaussian because of strong scattering from statistical fluctuations in the local composition on a nanometer scale.

Listed are the principal courts of first instance ( general jurisdiction ), the principal intermediate appellate courts, and the courts of final appeal or resort.

Some presbyterian churches have no intermediate court between the presbytery and the general assembly.

In a very general way, energy level differences between electronic states are larger, differences between vibrational levels are intermediate, and differences between rotational levels are smaller, although there can be overlap.

In general the more intermediate the composition, the larger the pillows, due to the increase in viscosity of the erupting lava.

Whereas an intermediate appellate court hears general appeals from a lower court grounded on issues of law and procedure as well as errors of fact and reasoning, the Court only decides matters on points of law or procedure as applied in a case, not factual errors.

In general, the disease-causing protein aggregates with ubiquitin in inclusion bodies, disrupts the intermediate filament network, and impairs the ability of the cell to degrade non-functioning proteins, which leads to photoreceptor apoptosis.

In a general sense, it is the intermediate type between basalt and dacite, and ranges from 57 to 63 % silicon dioxide ( SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) as illustrated in TAS diagrams.

His device had two key safety features: having an intermediate " all stop " signal state to give moving traffic time to stop before signaling cross traffic to proceed, and having a " half mast " position to indicate general caution at times when the device operator was not present.

It is distinguished from the cueca by an intermediate melodic section and a more prominent melody in general ; the tonada is also not danced.

Such names are formed by the initials of the cardinal directions and their intermediate ordinal directions, and are very handy to refer to a heading ( or course or azimuth ) in a general or colloquial fashion, without having to resort to computing or recalling degrees.

Today's factor models of intelligence typically represent cognitive abilities as a three-level hierarchy, where there are a large number of narrow factors at the bottom of the hierarchy, a handful of broad, more general factors at the intermediate level, and at the apex a single factor, referred to as the g factor, which represents the variance common to all cognitive tasks.

The US fielded an intermediate round in the. 30 US, now known as the. 30 Carbine, and M1 carbines were fielded in large numbers but not as a replacement for the 30-06 round in general use.

The Soviet Union type qualified a new intermediate round in 1943, at the same time it began to field the M44 Mosin-Nagant carbine as a general issue small arm.