Used by healthcare professionals, might be unfamiliar in everyday conversation.

Medical Jargon

Refers specifically to a part in the brain, not used metaphorically or in general speech.

Anatomical Reference

Generally used in scientific research or medical settings, rarely in casual conversation.

Specialist Vocabulary

 melatonin tells your brain and your body that it's nighttime and that it's time to sleep melatonin is naturally produced by your brain and it's released by a very small gland deep within your brain called the pineal gland however you can

What is melatonin -- and...

 brought to life by a divinely created soul located in the brain's pineal gland. And in 1907, Dr. Duncan McDougall even claimed that the soul had mass, weighing patients immediately before and after death in an attempt to prove it.

At what moment are you...

 pineal gland which is conveniently located right in the centre of the brain and a Massachusetts country doctor once claimed to have actually weighed the soul as it left the body at death three-quarters of an ounce he said but

Pineal