medulla
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For example, when the medulla is active, it initiates breathing.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
The researchers assumed the brain's frontal cortex, which orchestrates complex thoughts and behaviors, was somehow communicating to a brainstem region called the medulla, which controls automatic breathing.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
Each hair can have three layers – the medulla, the cortex and the cuticle.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
The library nearly resembles the shape of a brain, with the entrance being the medulla oblongata and the robust flooring as the cerebellum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
There are scattered groups of nerve cells in the medulla oblongata which have either no demonstrable connection with the nerve nuclei, or are positively known to be connected with the longitudinal associating strands.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
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