medulla oblongata

Questions about medulla oblongata

What does medulla oblongata mean?

medulla oblongata means "lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata)".

What is another word for medulla oblongata?

Close synonyms include medulla, bulb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medulla oblongata a common word?

medulla oblongata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.