brain stem

See also: brainstem

English

Brain stem

Alternative forms

• brainstem

Etymology

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Noun

brain stem (plural brain stems)

1. (neuroanatomy, anatomy) The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the cerebrum and the rest of the forebrain.

Meronyms

• medulla oblongata
• pons
• pons Varolii
• midbrain

Translations

part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the forebrain and cerebrum

• Arabic: جِذْع الدِمَاغ (jiḏʕ ad-dimāḡ)
• Armenian: ուղեղաբուն (hy) (uġeġabun), ուղեղացողուն (uġeġacʻoġun)
• Basque: enbor entzefaliko
• Bengali: মস্তিষ্ককাণ্ড (mostiśkokanḍo)
• Bulgarian: продълговат мозък m (prodălgovat mozăk)
• Catalan: tronc de l'encèfal
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腦幹 / 脑干 (zh) (nǎogàn)

• Czech: mozkový kmen m
• Danish: hjernestamme c
• Dutch: hersenstam (nl) m
• Esperanto: cerba trunko
• Estonian: ajutüvi
• Finnish: aivorunko (fi)
• French: tronc cérébral (fr) m
• Galician: tronco do encéfalo (gl)
• German: Hirnstamm m
• Greek: εγκεφαλικό στέλεχος n (egkefalikó stélechos)
• Hebrew: גזע המוח (he) m (geza‘ ha-mokha)
• Hindi: मस्तिष्क स्तंभ m (mastiṣk stambh)
• Hungarian: agytörzs (hu)
• Indonesian: batang otak
• Italian: tronco encefalico m
• Japanese: 脳幹 (ja) (のうかん, nōkan)
• Kabuverdianu: tronk' sirebral (ALUPEC), tronku sirebral (Badiu), tronk' cerebral (São Vicente)
• Kazakh: ми бағаны (mıy bağanı)
• Korean: 뇌줄기 (noejulgi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qedê demax m

• Latin: truncus encephali, truncus cerebri
• Latvian: smadzeņu stumbrs
• Lithuanian: galvos smegenų kamienas
• Malay: batang otak
• Māori: pūroro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjernestamme m

• Persian: ساقه مغز
• Polish: pień mózgu (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: tronco cerebral m
• Russian: мозгово́й ствол (ru) m (mozgovój stvol)
• Slovak: mozgový kmeň m
• Slovene: možgansko deblo n
• Spanish: tronco del encéfalo m, tallo cerebral m, tallo encefálico m
• Swedish: hjärnstammen (sv) c
• Tamil: மூளைத்தண்டு (mūḷaittaṇṭu)
• Thai: ก้านสมอง (gâan-sà-mɔ̌ɔng)
• Turkish: beyin sapı
• Vietnamese: cuống não, thân não
• Welsh: coesyn yr ymennydd m

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