Combining form of CONARIUM, -AL, as in conario-hypophy·sial canal, a passage connecting the infundibulum with the pineal gland; so c.-h. tract.
1881. Owen, in Nature, XXIV. 498. The conario-hypophysial tract … divided the ‘fore-brain’ from the ‘hind brain.’ Ibid., XXV. 167. The conario-hypophysial tract, or the so-called pineal and pituitary glands.
