adrenal medulla
Anatomy and Zoology
noun
The inner region of the adrenal gland, composed of chromaffin cells of neural crest origin that synthesize and secrete the catecholamines adrenaline and noradrenaline.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Progressive Medicine.
- mechanical
- mechanical advantage
- mechanical arts
- mechanical bank
- mechanical drawing
- mechanical engineer
- mechanical engineering
- mechanical equivalent of heat
- mechanical equivalent of light
- mechanicalise
- mechanicalised
- mechanicalism
- mechanicality
- mechanicalization
- mechanicalize
- mechanicalized
- mechanically
- mechanical mixture
- mechanicalness
- mechanical pencil
- mechanical pulp
- mechanical rights
- mechanical tissue
- mechanical twin
- mechanical twinning