bulbar
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of 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
Four years later, in China on a trip around the world, he contracted bulbar poliomyelitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Consequently a destruction of this region of the brain or the fibres which proceed from it to the lower executive bulbar and spinal centres is followed by paralysis of the muscles of the opposite side.
From The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott
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