medulla spinalis

Questions about medulla spinalis

What does medulla spinalis mean?

medulla spinalis means "a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region".

What is another word for medulla spinalis?

Close synonyms include spinal cord. 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 spinalis a common word?

medulla spinalis 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.