medulla

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MTC arises from the medulla inside the thyroid gland, which contains C cells.

From Washington Post

This brain area is known to send projections to a site in the brain’s medulla, the raphe pallidus, which promotes increases in body temperature.

From Nature

But, for as much as Vicky can teach her kids about a medulla oblongata, science is a means to an end.

From Los Angeles Times

Furthermore, the monkey adrenal medulla receives substantial input from motor areas on the medial wall of the hemisphere that don’t exist in the rat.

From Scientific American

I later had the right medulla removed too, and although there were complications and it took 18 months to get the medication right to balance my hormones, by autumn 2013 we had cracked it.

From The Guardian