Definition of "supranuclear" []

• Above the level of the motor neurons (adjective)

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• "Dr Turner, 66, from Bath, had a progressive and incurable degenerative disease called supranuclear palsy."
• "Arthur R. Hall, a pastor at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda from 1967 to 1989, died Jan. 29 at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg of complications from progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurological disorder."
• "She had progressive supranuclear palsy, a neurological disorder."