Word.ws English Dictionary

hemisection

hemisection noun: a division along the mesial plane or median plane.

Noun

hemisection (plural hemisections)

  1. A division along the mesial plane or median plane.
    • perform a hemisection of the spinal cord
  2. One of the parts thus divided.

Forms of hemisection

pluralhemisections

Origin of hemisection

From hemi- + section.

Questions about hemisection

What does hemisection mean?
Hemisection means a division along the mesial plane or median plane.
What part of speech is hemisection?
Hemisection is a noun.
What is the plural of hemisection?
The plural of hemisection is hemisections.

Words near hemisection in the dictionary

  1. hemiscylliid
  2. hemiscylliids
  3. hemisect
  4. hemisected
  5. hemisecting
  6. hemisection
  7. hemisectioned
  8. hemisections
  9. hemisectomies
  10. hemisectomy
  11. hemisects

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hemisection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hemisection.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hemisection. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.