hemisphered

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From hemisphere +‎ -ed.

Adjective[edit]

hemisphered (comparative more hemisphered, superlative most hemisphered)

  1. Shaped into a hemisphere or hemispheres.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX:
      [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.
  2. Having a (dominant) cerebral hemisphere of a specified kind.
    • 1988, Rattihalli N. Malatesha, Lawrence C. Hartlage, Neuropsychology and Cognition, page 13:
      Objects situated in the right half of vision of a left-hemisphered infant would, by appearing larger, attract its attention.