medullary

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That is what in her country, which is also mine, they call the medullary bone, the most tasty and most succulent of all bones This lady you speak of, sir," remarked the citoyenne Gamelin, "was she not rather a saving soul, to make the same bone serve so many times over Oh!

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  1. In anatomy and zoology, pertaining to marrow or medulla, or resembling it in form or position; myelonal: as, medullary substance; a medullary cavity; medullary cancer; a medullary foramen.
  2. In botany, composing or pertaining to the medulla or pith of plants. See phrases below.
  3. Medullary axis in lichens, same as medullary layer.
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  • In a colony housing model, in which adult male and female mice were mixed, dominant males were more behaviorally active and responded to social interactions with a predominantly sympathetic adreno-medullary pattern; subordinate males were less behaviorally active and predominantly responded with a pituitary adreno-cortical pattern —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Boissard R, Gervasoni D, Schmidt MH, Barbagli B, Fort P, et al. (2002) The rat ponto-medullary network responsible for paradoxical sleep onset and maintenance: a combined microinjection and functional neuroanatomical study. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • MG516 demonstrated tumor regression in a number of cases and inhibited tumor growth by 80 to 100 percent in colorectal carcinoma, leiomyosarcoma, medullary thyroid, gastric carcinomas and glioblastoma tumor models. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Examples of tumor markers include prostate-specific antigen (PSA) for prostate cancer, cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) for ovarian cancer, calcitonin for medullary thyroid cancer, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) for liver cancer and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) for germ cell tumors, such as testicular cancer and ovarian cancer. —  All MayoClinic.com Topics
  • Nephrocalcinosis is caused by surplus excretion of calcium by the kidney, renal tubular acidosis, medullary sponge kidney, hypercalcemia (high calcium levels in the blood), renal cortical necrosis, and tuberculosis. —  We Blog A Lot
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