olivary body

noun

, Anatomy.

1. one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.

Word History and Origins

Origin of olivary body¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

To the side of the pyramid, and separated from it by a faint fissure, is the olivary fasciculus, which at its upper end is elevated into the projecting oval-shaped olivary body.

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External to and behind the pyramid is the crenated section of the olivary nucleus, the surface bulging of which forms the olivary body.

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If the hemisphere be cut through a little to the outer side of the median lobe, a zigzag arrangement of grey matter, similar in appearance and structure to the nucleus of the olivary body in the medulla oblongata, and known as the corpus dentatum of the cerebellum, is seen; it lies in the midst of the white core of the hemisphere, and encloses white fibres, which leave the interior of the corpus at its inner and lower side.

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