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hemisphered en · ADJ

Etymology

From hemisphere + -ed.

Meanings

1. Shaped into a hemisphere or hemispheres.
   • [T]hose which they call the eyes of Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimps, and the like, and are really so, are Hemispher'd, almost in the same manner as these of Flies are. 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX:
2. Having a (dominant) cerebral hemisphere of a specified kind.
   • Objects situated in the right half of vision of a left-hemisphered infant would, by appearing larger, attract its attention. 1988, Rattihalli N. Malatesha, Lawrence C. Hartlage, Neuropsychology and Cognition, page 13:

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Deriveds

bihemisphered