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hemispherectomy
noun
(
hemispherectomies
)
(
neurosurgery
) Surgical removal of a hemisphere (i.e., one-half) of the brain, usually performed to control otherwise uncontrollable epilepsy.
So Lacy's parents had brought her to Johns Hopkins for a , which is probably the most radical procedure in neurosurgery.
-- Christine Kennelly,
The New Yorker
, July 3, 2005, p.36.
Etymology:
From
hemisphere
+
-ectomy
.
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