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Oblongata

Oblongata \Ob`lon*ga"ta\, n. [NL.] (Anat.) The medulla oblongata.
--B. G. Wilder.

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oblongata

n. (context anatomy English) The medulla oblongata.

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Usage examples of "oblongata".

Pons and abducent to hook up with the polyurethane basilar-stem artery and allow a safe shimmy down to the good old oblongata just outside the rubberized meatus at ground zero.

The changes are mainly in the medulla oblongata and the endocrine glands.

The cranial nerves can simply be numbered one to twelve in Roman numerals (as they often are) according to the point of junction with the brain, beginning at the cerebrum and ending at the bottom of the medulla oblongata.

His flesh continues to crawl, yes, and cold bony fingers are still playing along the stem of his medulla oblongata, and unhappy intestinal maneuvers seem distressingly close to occurring.

An obvious case of spacio-psychological mispositioning of the medulla oblongata, leaving him with no option but to conquer the world.

I don't know just what happened, except I was reading a couple of nears ago that scientists had located the machinery that controls the replacement of tissue in the medulla oblongata.

One guy, breathless and staggering toward the door, claimed that she had tongued his medulla oblongata and stimulated visions of being choked in Death's dark closet -- which Mavis took as a compliment.

You implant it subcutaneously in the region of the medulla oblongata.