brainstem
/breyn-stem/US // ˈbreɪnˌstɛm //UK // (ˈbreɪnˌstɛm) //
脑干,大脑干
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
Examples
The cortex borrows, as it were, its consciousness from the brainstem.
You say we really have two brains—the brainstem and the cortex.
He makes a convincing case for paying more attention to the “densely knotted core of the brainstem.”
Brain death implies the complete and permanent absence of neurological function in the cortex and the brainstem.
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