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medullary

[ UK /mˈɛdələɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow
  2. of or relating to the medulla of any body part
  3. of or relating to the medulla oblongata

How To Use medullary In A Sentence

  • They are usually well circumscribed, gray-white and cystic, with a medullary location, and are often surrounded by a rim of compressed fibrous tissue.
  • Microscopy revealed acellular laminated membranes with a germinal layer within the medullary cavity of the tibia and fibula.
  • The cortical tissue in the area between the medullary pyramids constitutes the renal columns of Bertin.
  • The glomerular tufts were shrunken or necrotic and renal medullary rays were congested.
  • Now, _Polyporus dryadeus_ and _P. igniarius_ are such fungi; their hyphæ excrete a ferment which completely destroys the starch grains in the cells of the medullary rays of the oak, a tree very apt to be attacked by these two parasites, though _P. igniarius_, at any rate, attacks many other dicotyledonous trees as well. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
  • Particularly in the pathological examination, we discovered that it could activate and proliferate cells in lymph follicles, geminal centre, paracortical zone and medullary cord of lymph nodes.
  • Tumours growing _in the substance of the cord_ are nearly as common as extra-medullary growths, and as the growth is usually sarcoma, glioma, tuberculoma, or gumma, and infiltrates the cord, it is seldom capable of being removed by operation. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • The most cogent theory that supports the occasional finding of subcutaneous islands of ependyma in the postcoccygeal region in infants is that these lesions originate from extramedullary ependymal rests.
  • Mild edema of the medullary cavity was present in most of these cases.
  • That is what in her country, which is also mine, they call the medullary bone, the most tasty and most succulent of all bones. Dieux ont soif. English
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