medullary

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Classical Latin medullāris. By surface analysis, medulla + -ary.

However, human hairs can be distinguished from animal hairs by various characteristics, including color, texture, length, medullary structure and shape, shape of pigment, root size, and scale size. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.” The KRIYA YOGI mentally directs his life energy to revolve, upward and downward, around the six spinal centers (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man. — Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda

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