Found 2 items, similar to Cerebral hemispheres.
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Definition: cerebral hemisphere
cerebral hemisphere
n : either half of the cerebrum [syn:
hemisphere]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cerebral hemispheres
Hemisphere
\Hem"i*sphere\, n. [L. hemisphaerium, Gr. ?; ? half =
? sphere: cf. F. h['e]misph[`e]re. See
Hemi-, and
Sphere.]
1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided
by a plane passing through its center.
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2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same
in a map or picture.
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3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
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He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. --J. P.
Peters.
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Cerebral hemispheres. (Anat.) See
Brain.
Magdeburg hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups
forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air
can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the
pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto
von Guericke at Magdeburg.