Wiktionary
alt. (context neuroanatomy English) The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the forebrain and cerebrum. n. (context neuroanatomy English) The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the forebrain and cerebrum.
WordNet
n. the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus [syn: brainstem, brain-stem]
Usage examples of "brain stem".
Even now, the heaume was pulling at his neurons, programming his brain stem to pump out ever more noradrenaline and other chemicals that would enhance his memory.
His intellect temporarily resumes some control from his primitive brain stem and assesses the situation.
These respond to the stimulation of the hair cells by the sound waves and carry their impulses to the auditory nerve, which in turn transmits its message, via various portions of the brain stem, to the auditory-center in the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
He could feel its shape and color, a gigantic Y that curved from his brain stem over his skull to each eye, in color a reddish-black like grilled meat.
It damages the brain stem, the areas that control emotion and violence and feeding.
A few had been from knife-fighting distance, close enough so Thorn could feel his victim's final gush of breath on his hand as he drove a knife into an unprotected neck or brain stem.
The work I was doing now was essential, vital, and could save my life, but it was an intellectual exercise, and in the brain stem there was a primitive creature shaking the bars of its cage.
Shisei could feel inside herself a strange sensation, as if someone were massaging her spinal chord and brain stem.
All his autonomic responses were workinghe was breathing unaided, occasionally coughed, yawned, blinked, and showed roving eye movementswhich indicated that the lower brain stem, the vital part that controlled these activities, was still functioning.
Pinocchio Two was aimed at shifting the coupling level of the existing motor interface to a higher region of the brain stem and adding speech.
The skin it had clung to was pale, almost white, but unmarked except for a puncture over the brain stem.
The black marketeer had bargained everything on a number of aggressive therapies, sacrificing any chance of long-term physical salvation, even of the macabre type that sustained Jongleur, to keep his multifold cancers out of his brain stem until he could undergo the Grail process.