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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, immediately surrounding the medulla or pith, as the perimedullary zone of a stem which is outwardly bounded by the protoxylem.
  • Surrounding more or less completely the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or the marrow of a bone.

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