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transhemispheric

transhemispheric adjective: across the hemispheres (of the brain).

Adjective

transhemispheric (not comparable)

  1. Across the hemispheres (of the brain)
    • A stroke has not only a detrimental effect on the directly affected tissue, but it can also impact more distant regions and to some extent even the contralateral hemisphere, causing a transhemispheric diaschisis [1, 2 ].2015 September 15, “A Small Motor Cortex Lesion Abolished Ocular Dominance Plasticity in the Adult Mouse Primary Visual Cortex and Impaired Experience-Dependent Visual Improvements”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of transhemispheric

From trans- + hemispheric.

Questions about transhemispheric

What does transhemispheric mean?
Transhemispheric means across the hemispheres (of the brain).
What part of speech is transhemispheric?
Transhemispheric is an adjective.

Words near transhemispheric in the dictionary

  1. transhalogenations
  2. transhape
  3. transhaped
  4. transhapes
  5. transhaping
  6. transhemispheric
  7. transhemispherical
  8. transhemizygous
  9. transhepatic
  10. transhepatically
  11. transhet

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