OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 37634

hemispherectomy

Meanings (ES + gloss)
hemisferectomía
Surgical removal of a hemisphere of the brain, usually performed to control otherwise uncontrollable epilepsy.
So Lacy's parents had brought her to Johns Hopkins for a hemispherectomy, which is probably the most radical procedure in neurosurgery.
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