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There she studied how organic osmolytes protect the kidney medulla—the inner part of the kidney—from the high levels of salt there that would otherwise destroy DNA and proteins in its cells.

Medulla means “middle,” and refers to the center of the bone structure.

One of his works, his ‘Medulla Theologiæ,’ I believe, adorned the walls of the paternal study.

The actual performance of the action is then taken up by the cerebellum, medulla, and spinal ganglia.

But they were only stylized gestures leading to conditioned reflexes deep in the medulla.

Posteriorly is situated the hind-brain, now consisting of the medulla oblongata and cerebellum.

In Scyllium, however, indications appear in the hind-brain of its future division into a cerebellum and medulla oblongata.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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