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What is a brain stem?

What is a brain stem? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (neuroanatomy) The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the forebrain and cerebrum.
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The acute management of patients with locked-in syndrome is similar to that for patients with other acute brain stem insults.
From the brain stem emerge pairs of cranial nerves, analogous to the spinal nerves that innervate the limbs and trunk.
The involuntary muscles are controlled by structures deep within the brain and the upper part of the spinal cord called the brain stem.
Most of these have to do with problems of the inner ear or of the brain stem or cerebellum.
Superimposed on this reflex arc, are suprasegmental modifying influences from the brain stem, cerebellum, basal ganglia, and cerebral cortex.
They observed both neurons and astrocytes, the two types of cells into which the brain stem cells mature.

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