How to Use brain stem in a Sentence

brain stem

noun

• 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
• 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
• The brain stem controls the balance, which must be just right.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• The brash Vesuvian sounds of golden-era rap had us by the brain stem.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• Eaise had a tumor on his brain stem, known as a tectal glioma.
  — Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Does damage to the brain stem also affect the content of dreams and the actions of dreamers?
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The lack of this response in some patients with Covid-19 could indicate the brain stem is impaired.
  — Liz Szabo, CNN, 1 June 2020
• Emma has also has them on her optic nerves and brain stem.
  — AJC.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• 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
• But growing pressure from a tumor on her brain stem was causing her face to go numb.
  — Jeff Truesdell, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• She was told the student had chronic brain stem infliction.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 31 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Forsythe's stroke was a hemorrhagic stroke in his central brain stem.
  — Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2022
• Her form of spina bifida — lipomyelomeningocele — puts a fatty tumor on the spinal cord, threatening to tug the brain stem out of place.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• The study found that the players had lower measures of fractional anisotropy in their right midbrains, which is a part of the brain stem.
  — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024