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bulbar

bulbar adjective: relating to, or having the form of, a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.

Adjective

bulbar (not comparable)

  1. Relating to, or having the form of, a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.
    • When she began to have trouble breathing, a sign of severe bulbar polio, she was taken by ambulance to another hospital.2009 January 27, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio”, in New York Times

bulbar meaning in Tamil

bulbar in Tamil

காள, முகுள, குமிழைப்பற்றிய, புடைத்த பகுதியைச் சார்ந்த

Synonyms of bulbar

Origin of bulbar

From bulb + -ar.

Words formed from bulbar

Phrases with bulbar

Questions about bulbar

What does bulbar mean?
Bulbar means relating to, or having the form of, a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.
What is bulbar in Tamil?
Bulbar in Tamil is காள, முகுள, குமிழைப்பற்றிய. See Bulbar meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bulbar?
Bulbar is an adjective.

Words near bulbar in the dictionary

  1. bulb-out
  2. bulb-outs
  3. bulb-tee
  4. bulbaceous
  5. bulbal
  6. bulbar
  7. bulbar conjunctiva
  8. bulbar conjunctivae
  9. bulbar conjunctivas
  10. bulbectomies
  11. bulbectomize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bulbar (page history and authors); bulbar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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