Medical term:
hemispherectomy
hemispherectomy
[hem″ĭ-sfēr-ek´to-me]surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere; done in intractable epilepsy.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
hem·i·spher·ec·to·my
(hem'ē-sfēr-ek'tŏ-mē),Excision of one cerebral hemisphere; undertaken for malignant tumors, intractable epilepsy usually associated with infantile hemiplegia due to birth injury, and other cerebral conditions.
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hemispherectomy
(hĕm″ĭ-sfĕr-ĕk′tō-mē)Surgical removal of one hemisphere of the brain; an operation sometimes used to treat severe brain diseases such as refractory epilepsy.
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