Medulla Synonyms and Antonyms

mĭ-dŭlə
Lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. myelin
  2. medulla-oblongata
  3. myeline
  4. bulb
The inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. cortex

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Medulla Sentence Examples

  • In small therapeutic and in small toxic doses atropine stimulates the motor apparatus of the spinal cord, just as it stimulates the centres in the medulla oblongata.

  • In the majority of ferns, at a higher level, after the stele has increased greatly in diameter, a large-celled true pith or medulla, resembling the cortex in its characters, and quite distinct from conjunctive, from which it is separated by an internal endodernlis, appears in the centre.

  • The medulla is full of renal tubules, but does not contain renal corpuscles.

  • If the cortical layer should exhibit positive reaction and the medulla of the same species a negative reaction with both reagents, the result is represented thus, K CaCI i.

  • Cells of this type are often called trumpet-hyphae (though they have no connection with the hyphae of Fungi), and in some genera of Laminariaceae those at the periphery of the medulla simulate the sieve-tubes of the higher plants in a striking degree, even (like these latter) developing the peculiar substance callose on or in the perforated cross-walls or sieve-plates.

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