bulbar
English
Etymology
bulb + -ar
Adjective
bulbar (not comparable)
- Relating to, or having the form of a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.
- 2009, January 27, “Barron H. Lerner”, in A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio:
- When she began to have trouble breathing, a sign of severe bulbar polio, she was taken by ambulance to another hospital.
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Derived terms
- corticobulbar
- parabulbar
- peribulbar
- pseudobulbar
- retrobulbar
- suprabulbar
- tectobulbar