Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Bisection; especially, section of a part into right and left halves, or one of such halves.

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

  • noun (Anat.) A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided.

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  • noun anatomy A division along the mesial plane.
  • noun anatomy One of the parts thus divided.

Etymologies

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Examples

  • For Jen, the trip to Lab D had been illustrative on another front: She was now able to report that every table in that room had performed a hemisection.

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

  • Half the faculty interpreted the injunction to mean Vasan had given each instructor the discretion to decide whether to proceed with a full hemisection; the other half swore Vasan had issued an outright ban of the procedure.

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

  • Udele, Jen, Ivan and Sherry needed only visit their friends at Table 28 to see the advantage of the full hemisection: an unobstructed view of the structures within the pelvic girdle.

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

  • Taking a look at Table 28, which had separated the left leg at the hip socket, Jen urged Ivan to plunge forward, turning the longitudinal procedure into a full hemisection.

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

  • Then came the hemisection of the head, a procedure Reuven continued to insist crossed the line between necessary academic behavior and desecration.

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

  • Parting Gift, A patients, right side of pectoralis major pediatrics pelvis, bisection vs. hemisection of penile implants penis pericardium

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

  • Three weeks later, the furor over the hemisection long relegated to ancient history by the countless other mini-crises visited daily upon their lives as medical students, Ivan stood again at Table 28.

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

  • He came to the conclusion that the hypoplasia of motor nerve cells of the ventral horn and of other nerve cells of the same hemisection of the spinal cord resulted from lack of stimuli centripetally transmitted by nerve fibers of the first differentiated neurons.

    Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later 1986

  • Among his other brilliant experiments were the demonstration of the function of the laryngeal nerves, of the motor and sensory functions of the spinal nerve roots, of the effect of transverse incision of the spinal cord, and of the effect of hemisection.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • Among his other brilliant experiments were the demonstration of the function of the laryngeal nerves, of the motor and sensory functions of the spinal nerve roots, of the effect of transverse incision of the spinal cord, and of the effect of hemisection.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884

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