| acute bulbar poliomyelitis | Poliomyelitis virus infection affecting nerve cells in the medulla oblongata and producing paralysis of the lower motor cranial nerves. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| polioencephalitis | Inflammation of the gray matter of the brain, either of the cortex or of the central nuclei; as contrasted to inflammation of the white matter. Origin: polio-+ G. Enkephalos, brain, + -tis, inflammation (05 Mar 2000) |
| polioencephalitis infectiva | A unique encephalitis, presumably viral in origin, which followed the influenza pandemic of 1914-1918. Symptoms included ophthalmoplegia and marked somnolence, and in many survivors, the delayed development of Parkinson's disease; the basis for postencephalitic Parkinsonism. Synonym: encephalitis lethargica, polioencephalitis infectiva. (05 Mar 2000) |
| superior haemorrhagic polioencephalitis | <syndrome> A condition frequently encountered in chronic alcoholics, largely due to thiamin deficiency and characterised by disturbances in ocular motility, pupillary alterations, nystagmus, and ataxia with tremors; an organic-toxic psychosis is often an associated finding, and Korsakoff's syndrome often coexists; characteristic cellular pathology found in several areas of the brain. Synonym: superior haemorrhagic polioencephalitis, Wernicke's disease, Wernicke's encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| superior polioencephalitis | Polioencephalitis with ophthalmoplegia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inferior polioencephalitis | Polioencephalitis with predominantly bulbar paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulbar | <anatomy> Pertaining to a bulb, pertaining to or involving the medulla oblongata, as in bulbar palsy. (18 Nov 1997) |
| bulbar apoplexy | Apoplexy due to vascular lesion in the brainstem. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulbar conjunctiva | The part of the conjunctiva covering the anterior surface of the sclera and the surface epithelium of the cornea. Synonym: tunica conjunctiva bulbi, conjunctival layer of bulb. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulbar myelitis | Inflammation of the medulla oblongata. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulbar palsy | Progressive weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the tongue, lips, palate, pharynx, and larynx, usually occurring in later life; most often caused by motor neuron disease. Synonym: bulbar palsy, bulbar paralysis, Duchenne's disease, Erb disease, glossolabiolaryngeal paralysis, glossolabiopharyngeal paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulbar paralysis | Progressive weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the tongue, lips, palate, pharynx, and larynx, usually occurring in later life; most often caused by motor neuron disease. Synonym: bulbar palsy, bulbar paralysis, Duchenne's disease, Erb disease, glossolabiolaryngeal paralysis, glossolabiopharyngeal paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulbar pulse | A jugular pulse supposed to indicate tricuspid insufficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulbar ridge | One of two spiral subendocardial thickenings in the embryonic bulbus cordis; when they fuse, they divide the bulbus into the aorta and pulmonary artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bulbar septum | An obsolete term for spiral septum. (05 Mar 2000) |