Sentences with phrase «pineal organ»

But many modern reptiles have a so - called third eye, the pineal organ.

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What the ancient lizard did with these organs isn't known, but some modern vertebrates use the amplified photosensitivity they glean from the pineal glands to navigate.

The structures are called the pineal and parapineal organs.

Those holes marked the location of its third and fourth eyes, called the pineal and parapineal organs.

The most infectious organs — where BSE prions cluster — are the brain and spinal cord, followed, on a less infectious level, by the pineal, pituitary, and adrenal glands, spleen, tonsils, placenta, lymph nodes, ileum, part of the colon, dura mater, and cerebrospinal fluid.

Smith says that while there's «nothing mystical» about the pineal and parapineal organs, they do enable extraordinary abilities.

He suspected that DMT might be produced in the pineal gland, a minute organ nestled deep in the brain.

Their evidence confirms that the pineal and parapineal glands weren't a pair of organs in the way that vertebrate eyes are.

The third and fourth eyes refer to pineal and parapineal organs, eye - like photosensory structures on the top of the head that play key roles in orientation and in circadian and annual cycles.