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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as corpus callosum (which see, under corpus).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under carpus.

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Examples

  • How this can happen with a severed corpus callosum is a good question.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • If both of your hemispheres learn for years that they are "Joy", and then the corpus callosum is cut, they're not going to suddenly forget and think they're someone else.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • Scientists have been able to learn a lot about the two hemispheres through surgeries in which the corpus callosum is severed (sometimes necessary for people with epilepsy, to reduce the number and severity of seizures).

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » On Brains: Is Right for Writers? 2007

  • One notable difference between male and female neuroanatomy is the communication channel that connects the left and right hemispheres, called the corpus callosum, which is much larger in women than in men.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • One notable difference between male and female neuroanatomy is the communication channel that connects the left and right hemispheres, called the corpus callosum, which is much larger in women than in men.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • One notable difference between male and female neuroanatomy is the communication channel that connects the left and right hemispheres, called the corpus callosum, which is much larger in women than in men.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • One notable difference between male and female neuroanatomy is the communication channel that connects the left and right hemispheres, called the corpus callosum, which is much larger in women than in men.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • The corpus callosum, which is made up of nerve fibers known as axons, is a long, narrow structure that connects and transmits information between the brain's right and left hemispheres.

    Homosexuality and Biology 1997

  • The corpus callosum, which is made up of nerve fibers known as axons, is a long, narrow structure that connects and transmits information between the brain's right and left hemispheres.

    Homosexuality and Biology 1997

  • In studying responses of patients in which the corpus callosum connecting the left and right brain had been severed, the researchers found that information about beliefs and intentions from the right brain had to reach the judgmental processes in the left brain to reach the correct moral judgment.

    Dr. Douglas Fields: Of Two Minds on Morality Dr. Douglas Fields 2010

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