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Brainstem vs Bulbar - What's the difference?

brainstem | bulbar |

As a noun brainstem

is .

As an adjective bulbar is

of or pertaining to the brainstem.

brainstem

English

Anagrams

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bulbar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the brainstem.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 27, Barron H. Lerner, A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio, New York Times citation
  • , passage=When she began to have trouble breathing, a sign of severe bulbar polio, she was taken by ambulance to another hospital. }}

    Derived terms

    * corticobulbar * pseudobulbar * retrobulbar