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.