'Conarium' definitions:
Definition of 'Conarium'
From: GCIDE
- Conarium \Co*na"ri*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. kwna`rion.] (Anat.) The pineal gland. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'conarium'
From: GCIDE
- Pineal \Pi"ne*al\, a. [L. pinea the cone of a pine, from pineus of the pine, from pinus a pine: cf. F. pin['e]ale.] Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone. [1913 Webster]
- Pineal gland (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also pineal body, epiphysis, conarium. In some animals it is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant of a dorsal median eye. [1913 Webster]