bulbar

• bulbal

From bulb +‎ -ar.

bulbar (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or having the form of a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.
   • 2009 January 27, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio”, in New York Times‎:

     When she began to have trouble breathing, a sign of severe bulbar polio, she was taken by ambulance to another hospital.

• (medulla oblongata): medullary, oblongatal

Borrowed from French bulbaire.

bulbar m or n (feminine singular bulbară, masculine plural bulbari, feminine and neuter plural bulbare)

1. bulbar

bulbar m or f (masculine and feminine plural bulbares)

1. bulbar

• “bulbar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10