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Definition: Brainstem |
BrainstemNoun1. The part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: BrainstemSynonym: brain stem (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brainstem |
| English words defined with "brainstem": corticospinal tract ♦ pyramidal motor system, pyramidal tract ♦ reticular formation, RF. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "brainstem": Convulsions, cranial nerves ♦ Internal Capsule ♦ pairs of cranial nerves ♦ Septal Nuclei. (references) |
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Health | Usually the cerebellum and brainstem are formed normally. (references) | |
When syrinxes affect the brainstem, the condition is called syringobulbia. (references) | ||
The brainstem controls many of our vital functions, such as respiration and heartbeat. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Brainstem" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Brainstem" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
auditory brainstem response | 21 |
brainstem | 18 |
brainstem stroke | 7 |
brainstem glioma | 6 |
auditory brainstem evoked response | 4 |
brainstem injury | 3 |
abr auditory brainstem response test | 3 |
brainstem tumor | 2 |
auditory brainstem response test | 2 |
brainstem infarct | 2 |
anatomy brainstem | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "brainstem"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | εγκεφαλικό στέλεχος (brain stem). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ainstembray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Brainstem" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brainstawm, Brinsden, Bronshten. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tribesman. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ambients, banister, barmiest, barniest, minarets, raiments. | |
-2 letters: ambient, ambries, anestri, antsier, baiters, banters, banties, barites, basinet, batsmen, brisant, etamins, imarets, inmates, maestri, marines, martens, martins, minaret, minster, minters, misrate, nastier, raiment, ratines, rebaits, remains, remints, retains, retinas, retsina, sarment, seminar, smarten, smartie, stainer, stearin, tameins, terbias, timbers, timbres. | |
-3 letters: absent, aimers, airest, airmen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: brominates, disbarment. | |
+2 letters: abridgments, disbarments, subterminal, tambourines, timberlands. | |
+3 letters: abridgements, arbitraments, brainstormed, brainstormer, drumbeatings, embarkations, embrocations, recombinants, subminiature. | |
+4 letters: abnormalities, administrable, antisubmarine, biometricians, brainstormers, cabinetmakers, mensurability, mistranscribe, thrombokinase, transmissible, transmittable. | |
+5 letters: antiliberalism, disembarkation, indemonstrable, indemonstrably, insurmountable, libertarianism, mistranscribed, mistranscribes, perambulations, recombinations, retinoblastoma, sabermetrician, submetacentric, subnormalities, terminableness, thrombokinases, troublemakings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 61 69 6E 73 74 65 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .- .. -. ... - . -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r a i n s t e m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0061 0069 006E 0073 0074 0065 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)368467758085867179 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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