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What does basilar mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or located at a base, but especially at the base of the skull or a lung.
  2. Lower; inferior; base.
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After giving off pontine and other branches, the basilar artery divides into two posterior cerebral arteries at the upper border of the pons.
He discovered that a sound stimulus entering the inner ear causes a wave-like distortion to propagate along the basilar membrane.
Within 48 hours, basilar or central alveolar flooding occurs and pleural effusions are often seen.
Many arterial branches arise from the vertebral and basilar artery to supply the medulla oblongata and the pons.
The basilar region is not actually small, but it is inferior in size to the sincipital.
A chest radiograph showed bilateral diffuse basilar infiltrates, otherwise unchanged from findings on previous radiographs.

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