CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebral hemisphere mean? 

• CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE (noun)
  The noun CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE has 1 sense:

1. either half of the cerebrum

  Familiarity information: CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either half of the cerebrum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cerebral hemisphere; hemisphere

Hypernyms ("cerebral hemisphere" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cerebral hemisphere"):

left brain; left hemisphere (the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body)

right brain; right hemisphere (the cerebral hemisphere to the right of the corpus callosum that controls the left half of the body)

Holonyms ("cerebral hemisphere" is a part of...):

cerebrum (anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans)

 Context examples 

The largest part of the brain composed of the cerebral hemispheres, thalamus, hypothalamus, and the limbic system.

(Forebrain, NCI Thesaurus)

The part of the brain located anterior to the parietal lobes at the front of each cerebral hemisphere.

(Frontal Lobe, NCI Thesaurus)

The anterior part of the cerebral hemisphere.

(Frontal Lobe, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is located in front of and lateral to the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere.

(Corpus Striatum, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The cavity surrounding the white matter structure within the cleft that separates the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

(Corpus Callosum Cistern, NCI Thesaurus)

A white matter structure within the cleft that separates the left and right cerebral hemispheres in the mammalian brain.

(Corpus Callosum, NCI Thesaurus)

The main neocortical commissure of the cerebral hemispheres; it is subdivided into a genu, a rostrum, a body, and a splenium.

(Corpus Callosum, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

It typically affects adults and is preferentially located in the cerebral hemispheres.

(Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

The hollow space between the medial surface of the cerebral hemisphere and the falx cerebri.

(Hemispheric Cistern, NCI Thesaurus)

Upper central part of the cerebral hemisphere.

(Parietal Lobe, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)