medullaradj.
/mɛˈdʌlə/, /mᵻˈdʌlə/, U.S. /məˈdələr/, /ˈmɛdʒələr/ Chiefly Anatomy and Zoology.
= medullary adj. 2.
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medullar?1541
medullary1649
medullated1867
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > substance of bones > [adjective] > bone-marrow
marrowy?a1425
medullar?1541
medullous1578
marrowish1612
medullary1704
myeloid1853
myelogenous1875
myelogenic1876
the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > medulla oblongata
medullar?1541
medullary1649
olivary1844
macromyelonal1868
supraspinal1878
oblongatal1885
myelencephalic1890
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Eijv Woundes of the scalpe..be moste peryllous... Yt toucheth the substaunce medulare [Fr. medulaire].
1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2062 The Medullar Mass of the Brain.
1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (ed. 2) i. vi. 340 Nerves in the Medullar Part.
1726 C. Johnson Female Fortune-teller v. 88 I will begin with your Brain; aye, we will trace this medullar Substance thro' all its Insertions.
1918 Science 8 Feb. 142/2 There is a definite suggestion that medullar reduction and profuse branching are in some way correlated with the development of thick-walled storage tissue by dicotyls.
1927 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 13 374 When the medullar hyperplasia is very large..it reflects back on the medullar cells and fibers caudally to the connection.
1969 Folia Medica (Plovdiv) 11 388 (title) Histochemical changes in the catecholamines of the medullar part of the suprarenals in rabbits.
1995 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 4664/1 Metastatic lesions in mouse vertebral bone marrow were..small enough to remain confined to the medullar space.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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