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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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In the first form, the lesions tend to concentrate in the brain stem and the cranial nerve ganglia.
Brains were removed and dissected into telencephalon, hypothalamus, optic tectum, and brain stem.
And at the base of the cerebrum, emerging like the stalk from a mushroom cap, is an elongated structure, the brain stem.
Like all reflexes, the startle reflects activity of the brain stem, the most primitive, reptilian part of the brain.
They observed both neurons and astrocytes, the two types of cells into which the brain stem cells mature.
However, the role of the brain stem and spinal cord in acupuncture remains unclear.

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