Usually means: Relating to the brainstem's bulb.
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  1. bulbar: Merriam-Webster
  2. bulbar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bulbar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bulbar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bulbar: Vocabulary.com
  6. bulbar: Wordnik
  7. bulbar: Wiktionary
  8. bulbar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bulbar: Infoplease Dictionary
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  11. Bulbar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Bulbar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. bulbar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. bulbar: Rhymezone
  15. Bulbar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. bulbar: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bulbar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. bulbar: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. bulbar: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bulbar: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. Bulbar: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bulbar)

▸ adjective:  Relating to, or having the form of a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.

Similar:
bulbal, bulbocerebellar, medullary, bulbospinal, oblongatal, tectobulbar, spinobulbar, medulloid, cerebellomedullary, cerebromedullary, more...

Opposite:
non-bulbar, spinal, cortical

Types:
motor, sensory, autonomic, interneurons, glial cells, more...

Phrases:
bulbar conjunctiva, Bulbar palsy, bulbar paralysis, bulbar poliomyelitis, bulbar polio, more...

Adjectives:
progressive, acute, severe, ocular, chronic, facial, retro, certain, pseudo, spastic, superior

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Similar:
bulbal, bulbocerebellar, medullary, bulbospinal, oblongatal, tectobulbar, spinobulbar, medulloid, cerebellomedullary, cerebromedullary, more...

Opposite:
non-bulbar, spinal, cortical

Types:
motor, sensory, autonomic, interneurons, glial cells, more...

Phrases:
bulbar conjunctiva, Bulbar palsy, bulbar paralysis, bulbar poliomyelitis, bulbar polio, bulbar septum, bulbar sheath, Progressive bulbar palsy, progressive bulbar paralysis, infectious bulbar paralysis, more...

Adjectives:
progressive, acute, severe, ocular, chronic, facial, retro, certain, pseudo, spastic, superior



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