medulla
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However, messages coming down from the pons actually inhibit activity in the medulla, leading breathing rates to slow down.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
The researchers assumed the brain's frontal cortex, which orchestrates complex thoughts and behaviors, was somehow communicating to a brainstem region called the medulla, which controls automatic breathing.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
This layer is also very fragile, but only thick or coarse hairs contain this part – so those with thin or blond hair typically don’t have the medulla layer in their hairs.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
The library nearly resembles the shape of a brain, with the entrance being the medulla oblongata and the robust flooring as the cerebellum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
As this column passes onward in the medulla oblongata, on a level with the glosso-pharyngeal nerve, it forms a group of cells of large size.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
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