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Medulla

noun

(pl. medullae, medullas)

A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers. Synonyms: myelin, myeline.

Lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; ('bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata). Synonyms: bulb, medulla oblongata.

The inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal.

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... again," said he. "It is the great restorative. Your nerves are shaken. Some little congestion of the medulla and pons. It is always instructive to reduce psychic or emotional conditions to their physical equivalents. You feel that your anchor is still firm in a bottom ...

— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle

... his hands, swaying back and forth, muttering the autohypnotic formulas. His incantations, Tighe had called them. But they were only stylized gestures leading to conditioned reflexes deep in the medulla. Now I ...

— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson

Words linked to "Medulla" : myelin sheath, brain-stem, plant tissue, brain stem, cortex, fat, brainstem, respiratory center, animal tissue, neural structure