medullary
Adjective
Meaning
Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, marrow or medulla.
Pertaining to the medula oblongata.
Filled with spongy pith; pithy.
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A discovery of features in a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton provided evidence of medullary bone in extinct dinosaurs and, for the first time, allowed paleontologists to establish the sex of a fossil dinosaur specimen.
A decrease in volume or pressure is a nonosmotic stimulus for antidiuretic hormone production in the hypothalamus, which exerts its effect in the medullary collecting duct for water reabsorption.
However, other studies have called into question some cases of medullary bone in dinosaurs, including this Allosaurus individual.
The gene AIRE is expressed by the thymic medullary epithelium, and drives the transcription of organ-specific genes such as insulin to allow maturing thymocytes to be exposed to a more complex set of self-antigens than is present in the cortex.
Kidney morphology, often indexed as the relative medullary thickness, is associated with habitat aridity among species of mammals, citation and diet (e.
Recent research has shown that medullary tissue is never found in crocodiles, which are thought to be the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, aside from birds.