medullary

1. 1.

   containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow
2. 2.

   of or relating to the medulla oblongata
3. 3.

   of or relating to the medulla of any body part

Questions about medullary

What does medullary mean?

medullary means "containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in medullary?

medullary has 4 syllables and divides as me-dul-la-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is medullary a common word?

medullary 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.