cerebral hemisphere

American  

noun

1. either of the rounded halves of the cerebrum of the brain, divided laterally by a deep fissure and connected at the bottom by the corpus callosum.

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cerebral hemisphere British  

noun

1. either half of the cerebrum

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cerebral hemisphere Scientific  

1. Either of the two symmetrical halves of the cerebrum, designated right and left. In mammals, the cerebral hemispheres are connected by the corpus callosum, a transverse band of nerve fibers.

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Etymology

Origin of cerebral hemisphere

First recorded in 1810–20

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I attribute the low weight to the loss of volume in the left cerebral hemisphere.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

If the left cerebral hemisphere is dominant in the majority of people, why would right-handedness be most common?

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Whereas hemorrhagic stroke may involve bleeding into a large region of the CNS, such as into the deep white matter of a cerebral hemisphere, other events can cause widespread damage and loss of neurological functions.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Normally one cerebral hemisphere is dominant, but when that is not the case, the brain may picture an image in reverse, cause the individual to read or write backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gyrus, jī′rus, n. one of the rounded edges into which the surface of the cerebral hemisphere is divided by the fissures or sulci.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various