bulbar
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Arvinas is pursuing two candidates for Parkinson’s disease and for spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a rare disorder that leads to progressive muscle weakness and wasting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
A condition of the disease called bulbar palsy slowed his tongue to the point his words wobbled enough that he sounded as if he were drunk.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025
His legal career was cut short, however, by a bout with bulbar polio, which left part of his face paralyzed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
Last year researchers revealed a similar process in two much rarer inherited diseases: fragile X syndrome, a form of mental retardation; and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a wasting disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quite similar fibrillar movements seem to be made by the tongue in bulbar paralysis, and in the case of dogs and guinea-pigs whose hypoglossus has been severed.
From The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. by William T. Preyer
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