bulbospinal
bulbospinal adjective: of, pertaining to, or connecting the medulla oblongata and the spinal cord.
Adjective
bulbospinal (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or connecting the medulla oblongata and the spinal cord.
- Of an animal: exhibiting only the reflexes that are integrated within the spinal cord and medulla oblongata, and not those from the midbrain and cortex, as a result of decerebration.
Origin of bulbospinal
From bulbo- + spinal.
Words formed from bulbospinal
Words that rhyme with bulbospinal
- urinal
- final
- anticlinal
- interspinal
- officinal
- spinal
- synclinal
- clinal
- doctrinal
- extravaginal
- geosynclinal
- intravaginal
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- matutinal
- quarterfinal
- rhinal
- semifinal
- serotinal
- vaginal
- abdominovaginal
- affinal
- anginal
- anospinal
- anovaginal
- antevaginal
- audiospinal
- binal
- botulinal
- brachiovaginal
- carinal
- cerebellospinal
- cerebrospinal
- cervicovaginal
- ciliospinal
- circumvaginal
- clitourethrovaginal
- coeruleospinal
- colovaginal
- corticospinal
- craniospinal
- diencephalospinal
- encephalospinal
- endovaginal
- enterovaginal
- epispinal
- eugeosynclinal
- extraspinal
- hemispinal
- holospinal
- hypothalamospinal
- ileovaginal
- iliospinal
- infraspinal
- intervaginal
- intra-vaginal
- intraspinal
- ischiovaginal
- isoclinal
- mediastinal
- medullispinal
- medullospinal
Questions about bulbospinal
- What does bulbospinal mean?
- Bulbospinal means of, pertaining to, or connecting the medulla oblongata and the spinal cord.
- What part of speech is bulbospinal?
- Bulbospinal is an adjective.
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