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contralesional

contralesional adjective: describing the half of a patient's brain or body away from the site of a lesion, as for example with hemispatial neglect after a stroke.

Adjective

contralesional (not comparable)

  1. Describing the half of a patient's brain or body away from the site of a lesion, as for example with hemispatial neglect after a stroke.

Antonyms of contralesional

Origin of contralesional

From contra- + lesion + -al.

Words formed from contralesional

Questions about contralesional

What does contralesional mean?
Contralesional means describing the half of a patient's brain or body away from the site of a lesion, as for example with hemispatial neglect after a stroke.
What part of speech is contralesional?
Contralesional is an adjective.

Words near contralesional in the dictionary

  1. contralateralize
  2. contralateralized
  3. contralateralizes
  4. contralaterally
  5. contralaterals
  6. contralesional
  7. contralesionally
  8. contralti
  9. contralto
  10. contraltos
  11. contrametric

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