How to Use brain stem in a Sentence
brain stem
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Thomas had a stroke May 24, caused by a tear of the basilar artery in the brain stem.
—David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2020
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The exit point is down the spinal canal, where the brain stem is, and that can be fatal.
—Avrahom Gurwitz, Philly.com, 27 Mar. 2018
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The brain stem controls the balance, which must be just right.
—Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
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The brash Vesuvian sounds of golden-era rap had us by the brain stem.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
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Eaise had a tumor on his brain stem, known as a tectal glioma.
—Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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The shot hit the man in the back of the head and left bullet fragments lodged in his brain stem, according to the documents.
—Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 31 May 2018
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Does damage to the brain stem also affect the content of dreams and the actions of dreamers?
—Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
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Hell, the cover features a man and a woman joined at the brain stem by a pink pulsing tendril.
—Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 12 Mar. 2018
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Nestled in the back of his head, near the brain stem, was a cancerous tumor the size of a halo orange.
—Naseem S. Miller, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2020
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Diaz said Sicknick suffered two strokes at the base of the brain stem caused by a clot in an artery that supplies blood to that area of the body.
—Peter Hermann, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2021
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Amadio opened a part of his skull near the brain stem and successfully removed the cyst in one piece.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Jan. 2020
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The lack of this response in some patients with Covid-19 could indicate the brain stem is impaired.
—Liz Szabo, CNN, 1 June 2020
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Emma has also has them on her optic nerves and brain stem.
—AJC.com, 30 Sep. 2017
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This system includes the brain stem, a part of the brain that houses our emotions and memories.
—Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
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But growing pressure from a tumor on her brain stem was causing her face to go numb.
—Jeff Truesdell, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
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The group has continued in the wake of Pappalas' death to raise awareness of brain stem tumors and bring in money to help fight the disease.
—Howard Ludwig, Daily Southtown, 7 Mar. 2018
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All the injured wore helmets and all the helmets had one thing in common: None protected the back of the neck, the cervical spine or the brain stem.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Oct. 2017
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One is his prose, which at this stage in his practice has become a high-tech delivery system: pure wit, right to the brain stem.
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 15 May 2020
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The trauma of being hit by the soccer ball, along with the AVM, triggered internal bleeding in her brain stem.
—Carol Robinson, AL.com, 30 Oct. 2017
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These patients have lost the ability to sleep and wake, to form memories, to speak, and so on – even though their brain stem is still working.
—Ben Thomas, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2016
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She was told the student had chronic brain stem infliction.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 31 July 2019
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And that consciousness is known to be linked to the activity of structures such as the brain stem and thalamus.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019
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When Ben was 18 months old he was diagnosed with a brain tumor on his brain stem that turned out to be cancerous.
—Joseph Spears, Indianapolis Star, 12 Sep. 2017
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The bullet missed Rodriguez’s brain stem and carotid artery by 2 centimeters but shattered his jaw, the order said.
—Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
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Neuroscientists have identified a clump of neurons in the brain stem as the switch that turns on R.E.M. sleep.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 June 2018
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The music is visceral, the high-pitch whir of the lira flutes like a snake worming its way through my earholes and taking hold of my brain stem.
—National Geographic, 23 July 2019
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There has been an irreversible cessation of all activity in both the brain and the brain stem.
—Usa Today, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2019
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Forsythe's stroke was a hemorrhagic stroke in his central brain stem.
—Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2022
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Ann, the participant in the USCF trial, had a brain stem stroke 17 years ago and has been participating in the research since last year.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
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In a study published in The Lancet in 2021, researchers found that the brain stem — the bottom, stalklike portion of the brain that connects to the spinal cord — was activated during migraine attacks, but not during a cluster headache.
—Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
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