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Definition of "bulbar" []

  • Of, relating to, or characteristic of a bulb, especially of the medulla oblongata: bulbar poliomyelitis. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bulbar" in a sentence
  • "And it took us a while to get in and see someone because were on the road at tournaments and finally in July we had initial diagnosis of bulbar, which is this region that is effected."
  • "But in some burn patients, the limbus is destroyed and the cornea instead develops from cells that cover the white of the eyeball, known as the bulbar conjunctiva."
  • "He was rushed to City Hospital in Syracuse where a diagnosis was made, via spinal tap, of bulbar polio."