bulbar
adjEtymology From bulb + -ar.
1
Relating to, or having the form of, a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.
- When she began to have trouble breathing, a sign of severe bulbar polio, she was taken by ambulance to another hospital.2009 January 27, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio”, in New York Times:
- Synonyms
- bulbal, medullary, oblongatal
- Derived terms
- bulbar conjunctiva, cervicobulbar, corticobulbar, epibulbar, extrabulbar, interbulbar, intrabulbar, nonbulbar, parabulbar, peribulbar, pontobulbar, postbulbar, propriobulbar, pseudobulbar, pseudobulbar affect, retrobulbar, spinobulbar, suprabulbar, tectobulbar, transbulbar, tubulobulbar, ventriculobulbar