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Hemispheres

Hemisphere

1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.

3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere. He died . . . Mourned by a hemisphere. (j. P. Peters)ten cerebral hemispheres.

(Science: anatomy) see brain.

(Science: physics) Magdeburg hemispheres, two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; used to illustrate the pressure of the air.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.

Origin: L. Hemisphaerium, gr.; half = sphere: cf. F. Hemisphere. See Hemi-, and sphere.


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Re: study and listen to the music at the same time

... focus on the message. You are also a global thinker if you can study in any place, any position and in any light condition. The left and right hemispheres of our brain usually communicate with one another through the corpus callosum. However it's not usually the case since either the two of ...

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by MrMistery
Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:08 am
 
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by mcar
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Re: The Axial Skeleton Helllllp!!??

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by Revenged
Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:53 pm
 
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Ununiform blood flow to the hemispheres of the brain

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by MrMistery
Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:55 pm
 
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Ununiform blood flow to the hemispheres of the brain

Hello, Perhaps this is a naiive question...naiive because of the lack of my knowledge of the blood circulation system of the brain. Anyway, I was wondering if increasing the blood flow to one hemisphere would improve its activity or dominance (at least temporarily). I came up with this question beca...

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by ragav.payne
Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:02 pm
 
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