Usually means: Controls basic functions, connects brain.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word brain stem:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. brain stem: Merriam-Webster
  2. brain stem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brain stem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brain-stem, brain stem: Vocabulary.com
  5. brain-stem: Wordnik
  6. Brain stem, Brain stem: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. brain stem: Wiktionary
  8. brain-stem, brain stem: Dictionary.com
  9. Brain Stem, Brain-stem, Brain stem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. brain-stem, brain stem: Rhymezone
  11. brain-stem, brain stem: FreeDictionary.org
  12. brain-stem, brain stem: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. brain-stem, brain stem: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brain stem: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brain-stem, brain stem: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. brain stem: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Brain stem: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Brain stem: Merck Manuals
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  8. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  9. brain stem: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. brain stem, stem, brain: Medical dictionary
  11. Brain Stem: Brain Injury
  12. Brain stem: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brain stem)

noun:  (neuroanatomy, anatomy) The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the cerebrum and the rest of the forebrain.

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