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Definition of Bulbar

1. Adjective. Involving the medulla oblongata. "Bulbar paralysis"

Definition of Bulbar

1. a. Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.

Definition of Bulbar

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the brainstem. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bulbar

1. bulb [adj] - See also: bulb

Medical Definition of Bulbar

1. Pertaining to a bulb, pertaining to or involving the medulla oblongata, as in bulbar palsy. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Bulbar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The degenerative type of bulbar disease is either subacute or chronic. ... The chronic or usual form of bulbar paralysis is almost always associated with ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"As the degeneration extends upward an important change takes place from the development of bulbar symptoms, which may, however, precede the spinal ..."

3. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1904)
"The symptomatology is much more variable than in the chronic bulbar form, ... The same eccentric grouping of bulbar nerve paralysis, with paralysis or ..."

4. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"bulbar paralysis is the term used to indicate combined paralysis of the cranial ... (a) Acute bulbar Paralysis. Paralysis of the nerves arising from the ..."

5. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1903)
"The causes of acute bulbar paralysis in all its forms are extrinsic and intrinsic ... These lead to bulbar symptoms, which are usually associated with other ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"One should always be guarded in making a positive diagnosis of hysteria before carefully considering the possibility of asthenic bulbar paralysis. ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1898)
"As differential points between the family form of infantile progressive bulbar paralysis (Fazio, Londe) and the bulbar form of muscular dystrophy, ..."

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