bulbar en · ADJ
Etymology
From bulb + -ar.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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:
Deriveds
parabulbar · ventriculobulbar · pseudobulbar affect · transbulbar · interbulbar · pseudobulbar · postbulbar · propriobulbar · pontobulbar · epibulbar · tubulobulbar · bulbar conjunctiva · cervicobulbar · tectobulbar · spinobulbar · nonbulbar · extrabulbar · peribulbar · corticobulbar · suprabulbar · retrobulbar · intrabulbar
Synonyms
bulbal · medullary · oblongatal
Translations (2)
pl opuszkowy (Translations) · it bulbare (Translations)