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Left Hemisphere

Definition: Left Hemisphere

Left Hemisphere

Noun

1. The cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Left Hemisphere

Synonym: left brain (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Left Hemisphere

English words defined with "left hemisphere": Broca's area, Broca's center, Broca's convolution, Broca's gyrus ♦ convolution of Broca, Coriolis effect ♦ foramen of Monro ♦ interventricular foramen ♦ language area, language zone, left brain ♦ Monro's foramen ♦ right brain, right hemisphere. (references)

Specialty definitions using "left hemisphere": baric wind law, Buys Ballot's law, Buys-Ballot's law ♦ Cerebral Infarction, cyclonic shear ♦ Ferrel's law ♦ prevailing westerlies. (references)

Commercial Usage: Left Hemisphere

Domain	Title
Books	The Focusing Hypothesis: The Theory of Left Hemisphere Lateralized Language Re-Examined (Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, Vol 3) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Left Hemisphere

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		For instance, the ability to form words seems to lie primarily in the left hemisphere, while the right hemisphere seems to control many abstract reasoning skills. (references)
		Some studies are testing how drugs can be used in combination with speech therapy to improve recovery of various language functions by increasing the task-related flow of activation in the left hemisphere of the brain. (references)
		The paralysis or weakness may affect only the face, an arm, or a leg or may affect one entire side of the body and face. A person who suffers a stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain will show right-sided paralysis or paresis. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: Left Hemisphere

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-f-h-h-i-l-m-p-r-s-t"
	-4 letters: hemisphere.
	-5 letters: ephemeris, helpmeets, hemipters.
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Alternative Orthography: Left Hemisphere

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 66 74 48 65 6D 69 73 70 68 65 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01100110 01110100 00100000 01001000 01100101 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#102 &#116 &#32 &#72 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#115 &#112 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0066 0074 0048 0065 006D 0069 0073 0070 0068 0065 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46717286242717975858274718471

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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