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The medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.

The posterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

The anterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

the "root," or part whence the hair originates. -- Bulb of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. -- Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervous papilla contained in the cavity of the tooth.

g to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.

or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata.

Pertaining to the medula oblongata.

Like an olive. Olivary body (Anat.), an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.

s Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain. Pons asinorum. Etym: [L., literally, bridge of asses.] See Asses' bridge, under Ass.

ecially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.

riped muscles of the arterial system with motor nerves, situated in a part of the medulla oblongata; a center of reflex action by the working of which afferent impulses are changed into efferent, -- vasomotor impulses leading either to dilation or constriction of the blood vessels.