medulla
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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
The parietal cortex — along with the hypothalamus and medulla — contains GLP-1 receptors.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2024
The innermost, or core layer, is the medulla.
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
Foraminif′eral, Foraminif′erous.—Forāmen magnum, the great hole in the occipital bone for the passage of the medulla oblongata and its membranes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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