medulla

Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”).

• IPA^(key): /məˈdʌlə/, IPA^(key): /mɛˈdʌlə/

medulla (plural medullas or medullae or medullæ)

1. The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit.
2. (anatomy) The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones.
3. (anatomy) The medulla oblongata.
4. (botany) The internal tissue of a plant.

• medulla oblongata
• medullar
• medullary
• medulloblastoma

medulla (plural medullas)

1. medulla

Possibly from Latin medius, or Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰós.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈdul.la/, [mɛˈdʊl.la]

medulla f (genitive medullae); first declension

1. (anatomy) marrow
2. vocative singular of medulla

medullā f

1. ablative singular of medulla

First declension.

• medullula (diminutive)

• medulla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medulla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medulla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• medulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette