The medulla oblongata is the most vital part of the brain because it contains centers controlling breathing and heart functioning. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This sixth fundamental part of man's brain is called the medulla oblongata. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Frog] Reference
SCHWARTZMAN: Swallowing is controlled by the medulla, which is in that general area. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Former President Gerald Ford Remains in Stable Condition After Suffering Stroke - August 3, 2000] Reference
The medulla is a canal running through the middle of a strand of some types of hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
But looking at some data specifically at the lowest part of the brain stem called the medulla, looking at serotonin activity in that area. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2006] Reference
If you think of a piece of hair as a pencil, the medulla is the graphite, the cortex is the wood, and the paint on the outside is the cuticle. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenth Circle]
The nerves within the parasympathetic nervous system that coordinate sneezing feed into a part of our brainstem known as the medulla oblongata. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
All that has been ventured to assume here, has been that the disease depends on a disordered state of that part of the medulla which is contained in the cervical vertebræ. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference
It is situated in that part of the brain called the medulla oblongata, and is fancifully called the "vital knot" (sec. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Old English arrow ... victory ... medal ... medulla. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
In humans, the medulla is either nonexistent or fragmented. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
The medulla oblongata carries on the process of respiration. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Surrounding this central portion or medulla, as it has been called. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
The adrenal gland is made up of two glands: the cortex and medulla. From Wordnik.com. [Endocrine system] Reference
On its under surface is a depression which receives the medulla oblongata. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
A part of the medulla oblongata, the destruction of which causes instant death. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Jill's eyes, "and I will apply this damp handkerchief to your medulla oblongata.". From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
These nerves are governed from a center in the medulla oblongata, a part of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The functions of the medulla oblongata are closely connected with the vital processes. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
It is a continuation of the medulla oblongata, and is lodged in the canal of the spinal column. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
THE CRANIAL NERVES, twelve pairs in number, spring from the lower part of the brain and the medulla oblongata. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
In the medulla also are centers for coughing, vomiting, swallowing, and the dilatation of the pupil of the eye. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The medulla, or lower brain, then becomes paralyzed, the vital organs cease to act and the man is no longer "dead" drunk. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] Reference
About seeing himself putting the reticle on the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord broadens at the base of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [One Shot]
The next three pairs of nerves all arise from the medulla, and escape from the cavity of the skull through the same foramen. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The medulla oblongata consists, like the spinal cord, of columns of white fibers and masses of gray matter, but differently arranged. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The motory nerves, as they descend from the brain, in the medulla oblongata, cross each other to the opposite side of the spinal cord. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
In the medulla oblongata exists a nervous centre called the vaso-motor centre, because of its close relations with the vaso-motor nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
As the fruit forms, the farinaceous medulla disappears, and when the tree, attains full maturity, the stem is no more than a hollow shell. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Next comes the medulla, which consists of loosely packed hyphae and within which a number of substances produced by the lichen are stored. From Wordnik.com. [Lichen] Reference
That the medulla spinalis was here affected, and in its lower part, is not to be doubted: but this, unfortunately, was never ascertained by examination. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference
It thence appears, that none of the characteristic symptoms of this malady are produced by compression, laceration, or complete division of the medulla spinalis. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference
In many instances the fibrous part takes up the whole interior, but in the centre of the coarser hair there is the medulla or pith, composed of very minute cells. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
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