medulla vs animal tissue

medulla and animal tissue both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
medulla	Yes	No	No	No
animal tissue	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, animal tissue is a hypernym of medulla; that is, animal tissue is a word with a broader meaning than medulla:

Other hypernyms of medulla include plant tissue.

medulla (noun)	animal tissue (noun)
the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal	the tissue in the bodies of animals
lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata)
a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers