Find out what you need to know about the medulla oblongata, what role it plays in the body, and potential issues.

The word "medulla" means middle or marrow. The term is used scientifically to describe many segments of the human anatomy, including part of the brain stem. The community of Medulla occupies an ...

Your medulla oblongata plays an essential role in passing messages between your spinal cord and brain. Learn more about this essential organ, along with diseases and injuries that may affect it.

Some coronal loops that make the sun appear like a messy ball of yarn may be an illusion created by folds and wrinkles in veils of material in our star.

The sun has developed a massive “hole” 20 times larger than Earth, marking the second such occurrence in a week.

Many conditions can damage the medulla, including medullary sponge kidney, medullary cystic kidney, kidney infection, and renal medullary carcinoma.

A monstrous dark patch, known as a coronal hole, recently appeared near the sun's equator. The temporary gap enables unusually fast solar wind to race toward Earth.

Secondary medulla oblongata involvement following middle cervical spinal cord injury associated with latent traumatic instability in a patient with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament ...

Some coronal loops (pictured) on the sun may not be single strands of plasma but rather optical illusions caused by “wrinkles” in the solar atmosphere, a new study suggests. Solar Dynamics ...

Cerebellar Degeneration: (Left) T2-weighted axial MRI; (Middle) T1-weighted coronal MRI; (Right) T1-weighted sagittal MRI. In all the scans, note the severe atrophy of the cerebellum. In contrast, the ...