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
• That team proposed slicing off the top of Miranda’s skull and then groping down to her brain stem.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa because the nerves originating in the brain cross over into the lower brain stem before entering the spinal column.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024