English

Noun

pituita ‎(uncountable)

1. (medicine, now only historical) Phlegm; mucus.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I (New York 2001 edition), p.148:

     Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder part of the chylus […].

Latin

Noun

pītuīta f ‎(genitive pītuītae); first declension

1. mucus, phlegm
2. rheum, head cold

Inflection

First declension.

References

• pituita in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pituita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PITUITA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pituita”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.