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callosumectomy en · NOUN

Etymology

From corpus callosum + -ectomy.

Meanings

  1. (rare) The surgical removal of the corpus callosum; splitting the brain into two halves.
    • which allows a researcher to examine lateralization in many bird species without any surgical manipulations such as callosumectomy in mammalian systems. 1998, Rosemary Strasser, The avian hippocampal formation and spatial cognition:

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