pseudobulbar paralysis

pseudobulbar paralysis /-bul″bər/ [Gk, pseudes, false; L, bulbus, swollen root, paralyein, to be palsied] , a condition resembling progressive bulbar paralysis, with dysarthria and dysphagia, but in which weakness of the bulbar muscles is of the upper motor neuron type. It may result from multiple bilateral infarcts of the cerebral cortex.