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Your pituitary gland is a pea-sized gland at the base of your brain. The pituitary is the master control gland - it makes hormones that affect growth and the functions of other glands in the body. With pituitary disorders, you often have too much or too little of one of your hormones. Injuries can cause pituitary disorders, but the most common cause is a pituitary tumor.
The pituitary gland is every now and then called the master gland of the endocrine system, as it controls the functions of the other endocrine glands, such as the temperature, thyroid activity, growth during early days of birth, urine production, testosterone production in males and ovulation and estrogen production in females.