bulbar
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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
One of the first human patients treated with the electrophrenic respirator was nine-year-old Bruce Plater, of Ottawa, Ont., who developed bulbar polio while on vacation in New England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Smith does not recommend giving the drug to patients who have the severe forms of bulbar or bulbospinal poliomyelitis, or to those in iron lungs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The larynx, lips, tongue, and pharynx also, are usually paralyzed in esophageal paralysis of bulbar origin.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
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