Word Meanings - OBLONGATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

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• MEDULLARY
  Filled with spongy pith; pithy. Medullary groove , a groove, in the epiblast of the vertebrate blastoderm, the edges of which unite, making a tube from which the brain and spinal cord are developed. -- Medullary rays , the rays of
• MEDULLA
  The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata. (more info) 1. Marrow; pith; hence, essence. Milton.
• WILDERNESS
  1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind. The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. Waller. 2. A disorderly or
• MEDULLATED
  Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.
• WILDER
  To bewilder; to perplex. Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. Bryant. (more info) bewildered, villa to bewilder; cf. AS. wildor a wild animal. See
• WILDERMENT
  The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment. And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death. Moore.
• MEDULLAR
  See MEDULLARY
• OBLONGATAL
  Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.
• WILDERING
  A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.
• OBLONGATA
  The medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.
• BEWILDER
  To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison. Syn. -- To perplex; puzzle; entangle; confuse; confound;
• BEWILDERING
  Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv.
• BEWILDERMENT
  1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.
• POSTOBLONGATA
  The posterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.
• BEWILDERED
  Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.
• PREOBLONGATA
  The anterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.
• BEWILDEREDNESS
  The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.
• NONMEDULLATED
  Not medullated; without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.