medula

Learned borrowing from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /meˈdula/ [meˈdu.la]
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: me‧du‧la

medula (plural medula-medula)

1. medulla
   1. (anatomy) the inner substance of various organs and structures
   2. marrow of bone

      Synonym: sumsum

   3. (neuroanatomy) ellipsis of medula oblongata
   4. (botany) the internal tissue of a plant

      Synonym: empulur

• “medula”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Learned borrowing from Latin medulla. Doublet of miolo, inherited from a Vulgar Latin derivative.

• Hyphenation: me‧du‧la

medula f (plural medulas)

1. (uncountable) marrow (substance inside bones)

   Synonym: tutano

• “medula”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “medula”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /meˈdula/ [meˈð̞u.la]
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: me‧du‧la

medula f (plural medulas)

1. alternative form of médula

• medula espinal
• medula oblonga, medula oblongada
• medula ósea

• “medula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025