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diaschisis

American

[dahy-as-kuh-sis] / daɪˈæs kə sɪs /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

a disturbance or loss of function in one part of the brain due to a localized injury in another part.

First recorded in 1910–15; from New Latin, from Greek diáschisis “a division”; see dia-, schiz-, -sis

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