(a.) Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gastric metaplasia was present in only 8% of 48 bulbar ulcer cases.
(2) The relationship between bulbar conjunctival hyperemia and temperature was investigated.
(3) EMG demonstrated that the reflex is absent in 40 controls and may appear with lesions which involve the precentro-bulbar tract.
(4) Following a midcollicular transection the paroxysmal bulbar activity abruptly disappeared.
(5) The volumetric determination of all those tissues relevant for Opthalmodynamography (ODG) showed the lids to contribute about a quarter to the total volume; another quarter each was due to the optic bulb including optic fascicel, external bulbar musculature and orbital fat.
(6) PTZ seizures appear to be mediated by an extensive system involving the reticular formation, diencephalic regions in the vicinity of the anterior medial thalamus and caudal hypothalamus, and bulbar regions which give rise to descending motor pathways to the spinal cord.
(7) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.
(8) When bulbar palsy and Horner's syndrome in the right eye suddenly appeared at the age of 42, he was diagnosed as having brain stem infarction.
(9) Taken together, these findings indicate that pentobarbital causes not only a fundamental alteration in bulbar rhythmogenic mechanisms, but also a differential influence on bulbar respiratory system components that are involved in the definition of the shape and the amplitude of central respiratory drive.
(10) Noncontact biomicroscopy of the vessels of the bulbar conjunctiva was employed to examine the microcirculatory bed in 91 normal full-term infants, who received 8-9 points according to Apgar's scale, in the course of the postnatal period.
(11) Old age and bulbar findings at onset were negative prognostic factors.
(12) The present paper describes a simple technique for reliable initiation of bulbar spreading depression with microinjections of potassium acetate.
(13) A quantitative study has confirmed that the density of labelled fibers increases gradually in the postnatal period and spreads heterogeneously among the bulbar layers.
(14) The length of the narrowed segment varied between 0.5 and 3 cm, the most frequent site the bulbar region.
(15) The general patterns of progression of bulbar ALS are outlined in this paper.
(16) Five masses involved the bulbar conjunctiva, and 2 masses involved the eyelids.
(17) In experimental yellow fever virus encephalomyelitis of adult albino mice, the occurrence of intranuclear inclusions within nerve cells, in particular, within spinal and bulbar motoneurons, is a constant finding.
(18) The clinical picture was characterized in all cases by a supranuclear opthalmoplegia, a pseudo-bulbar syndrome, an axial dystonia and a 'subcortical' dementia of a particular type.
(19) The formation of small craterlike defects was observed on the distal ventral and proximal left bulbar cushions.
(20) On a background of acute bulbar dysfunction, a patient experienced the simultaneous onset of severe proprioceptive loss and paralysis of automatic respiration that rapidly reverted to normal.