Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The crura cerebri, pons Varolii, and medulla oblongata.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus
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Examples
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He is just an old fool without anything at the end of his brain-stem.
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And limbo is not the state in which the brain can calm itself and return to normal function from years in the mental no-man's-land of anxiety, impulse, and despair of brain-stem stimulated adrenaline and cortisol release.
Ming Holden: The Real Haunted House Ming Holden 2011
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A person who suffers a brain-stem or spinal-cord injury because of an accident, stroke or disease can lose the ability to transmit the brain's messages to the rest of the body.
Wiring The Brain to Aid People With Paralysis Shirley S. Wang 2010
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And limbo is not the state in which the brain can calm itself and return to normal function from years in the mental no-man's-land of anxiety, impulse, and despair of brain-stem stimulated adrenaline and cortisol release.
Ming Holden: The Real Haunted House Ming Holden 2011
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Eventually she gains enough composure to tell me the terrible news: Sahara only twelve years old has just been diagnosed with stage 4 brain-stem cancer.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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Eventually she gains enough composure to tell me the terrible news: Sahara only twelve years old has just been diagnosed with stage 4 brain-stem cancer.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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Funding from the McCarthy-Stuart Foundation helped ETHEL develop the first electronic brain-stem, and establish the first ‘Consciousness Uploading and Neurological Transfer’ technique.
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Eventually she gains enough composure to tell me the terrible news: Sahara only twelve years old has just been diagnosed with stage 4 brain-stem cancer.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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A Swedish team led by Anders Bjorklund and Olle Lindvall of the University of Lund, who in 1987 first reported that fetal cells remain alive and pump out dopamine in the recipient's brain, announced in December that brain-stem tissue from 6 - to 8-week-old fetuses blossoms into fully functioning cells that substitute for the missing dopamine cells.
Cures From The Womb 2008
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They have only a few brain-stem "reflexes," including breathing and intestinal function.
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