"bulbar" meaning in English

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        {
          "word": "bulbar conjunctiva"
        },
        {
          "word": "cervicobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "corticobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "epibulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "extrabulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "interbulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "intrabulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "nonbulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "parabulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "peribulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "pontobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "postbulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "propriobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "pseudobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "pseudobulbar affect"
        },
        {
          "word": "retrobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "spinobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "suprabulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "tectobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "transbulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "tubulobulbar"
        },
        {
          "word": "ventriculobulbar"
        }
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          "ref": "2009 January 27, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "When she began to have trouble breathing, a sign of severe bulbar polio, she was taken by ambulance to another hospital.",
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      ],
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        "Relating to, or having the form of a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata."
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          "medulla oblongata",
          "medulla oblongata"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "medullary"
        },
        {
          "word": "oblongatal"
        },
        {
          "word": "bulbal"
        }
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          "word": "bulbare"
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  "word": "bulbar"
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      "word": "bulbar conjunctiva"
    },
    {
      "word": "cervicobulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "corticobulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "epibulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "extrabulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "interbulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "intrabulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonbulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "parabulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "peribulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "pontobulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "postbulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "propriobulbar"
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    {
      "word": "pseudobulbar"
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    {
      "word": "pseudobulbar affect"
    },
    {
      "word": "retrobulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "spinobulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "suprabulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "tectobulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "transbulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "tubulobulbar"
    },
    {
      "word": "ventriculobulbar"
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    {
      "word": "medullary"
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    {
      "word": "oblongatal"
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    {
      "word": "bulbal"
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      "word": "bulbare"
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  "word": "bulbar"
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