hemispherectomy

English

Etymology

From hemisphere +‎ -ectomy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

Noun

hemispherectomy (plural hemispherectomies)

1. (neurosurgery) Surgical removal of a hemisphere of the brain, usually performed to control otherwise uncontrollable epilepsy.
   • 2005 July 3, Christine Kennelly, The New Yorker, page 36:

     So Lacy's parents had brought her to Johns Hopkins for a hemispherectomy, which is probably the most radical procedure in neurosurgery.

Translations

surgical removal of a brain hemisphere

• Catalan: hemisferectomia f
• Dutch: hemisferectomie f
• French: hémisphérectomie f
• German: Hemisphärektomie (de) f
• Italian: emisferectomia (it) f
• Polish: hemisferektomia f
• Portuguese: hemisferectomia f
• Spanish: hemisferectomía f
• Swedish: hemisfärotomi c