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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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"Medulla" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... Doctor," he said at length, "but it is a method which I would not dare to use. By applying high frequency electrical stimulations to the medulla oblongata, at the same time bathing the cerebellum with ultra-violet, it might be done, but the chances are that either death or insanity would result. ...

— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various

... There are three grand divisions of the Brain, the Medulla Oblongata, the Cerebellum, and the Cerebrum; the first represents the merely animal instincts the second, the more elevated sentiments, the third, the intellectual powers. Human nature must, therefore, both in the ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker