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- noun Plural form of
hemispherectomy .
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Examples
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The New Yorker magazine has an article on hemispherectomies - surgical procedures which remove half of the cortex, usually in an attempt to cure otherwise life-threating epilepsy.
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The New Yorker magazine has an article on hemispherectomies - surgical procedures which remove half of the cortex, usually in an attempt to cure otherwise life-threating epilepsy.
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Those hemispherectomies were not even a possibility of being done in this community prior to Tim and Mark coming to town.
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Tim George and Mark Lee (a pediatric neurosurgeon at Dell Children's Medical Center who moved to Austin last year from the Medical College of Georgia) have done three hemispherectomies recently.
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Tim George and Mark Lee (a pediatric neurosurgeon at Dell Children's Medical Center who moved to Austin last year from the Medical College of Georgia) have done three hemispherectomies recently.
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Those hemispherectomies were not even a possibility of being done in this community prior to Tim and Mark coming to town.
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Many children who have had hemispherectomies at Johns Hopkins are in high school, and one, a college student, is on the dean’s list.
Boing Boing 2006
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