HEMISPHERE


Meaning of HEMISPHERE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

northern hemisphere

southern hemisphere

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

cerebral

These neutrons are setting off alarms all round your cerebral hemispheres .

But no-the two cerebral hemispheres are actually quite asymmetric in various ways.

left

Disconnection studies in split-brain patients supported this conclusion, showing that the left hemisphere is sufficient for language.

In split-brain patients it has been shown that the left hemisphere retains language function, the right does not.

Not only is the left hemisphere normally necessary for language, it is also sufficient.

This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.

The left hemisphere is responsible for the construction of spoken language, but the right contributes to its intended meaning.

The left hemisphere is not well equipped to deal with empty spaces.

Or since these desirable states can be put into words, do they belong only to the left hemisphere ?.

northern

Atmospheric carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere is increasing measurably.

All of the eruptions except Krakatoa happened in the northern hemisphere , and together they show a clear pattern of behaviour.

The timing of events in the systems described below is applicable to the calender of the northern hemisphere .

Brown and McCormick's skuas and Wilson's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere .

Levels in the northern hemisphere were 9 percent below normal in December 1992 and 11-12 percent below normal in April.

Winds in the northern hemisphere circulate anti-clockwise around low pressure.

This pattern is repeated in the route of the sun's progress in the northern hemisphere today.

right

This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.

The dot location task, which involves predominantly the right hemisphere , was expected to remain unaffected.

The right hemisphere of his brain could not articulate what it registered.

The right hemisphere is largely non-verbal, though right-sided speech centres are better developed in women than in men.

He believes perinatal trauma to be a likely contributing factor, because this in theory could produce damage to the right hemisphere .

One perplexing feature of this conclusion is that since the late nineteenth century far fewer children with right hemisphere lesions are aphasic.

It is difficult to reconcile such findings with Ornstein's claim that intuitive non-logical thinking is a function of the right hemisphere .

Damage to the corresponding part of the right hemisphere had no effect on speech.

southern

In the southern hemisphere , however, few cemeteries can match La Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

There are eighteen species of penguin worldwide, all confined to the southern hemisphere .

Alerce is one of the longest lived trees in the southern hemisphere with some specimens believed to be over 4000 years old.

Had early explorers come from the southern hemisphere , would our maps appear upside down?

Other diving birds, including ocean-going penguin species in the southern hemisphere , can also sit out storms.

Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.

In the southern hemisphere shadows travel anti-clockwise, at least as we see it.

western

This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty.

Both measures limited the employment of troops to the Western hemisphere .

The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.

The 625-strong observer force, which will have a six-month renewable mandate, is the first in the Western hemisphere .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Western Hemisphere

the northern hemisphere

the southern hemisphere

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Damage to the corresponding part of the right hemisphere had no effect on speech.

Historically, clinical evidence has been the greatest source of research into differences between the hemispheres.

It took the form of a hemisphere , with a face carved on the inner surface.

It was bitterly cold inside the aluminium hemisphere .

Levels in the northern hemisphere were 9 percent below normal in December 1992 and 11-12 percent below normal in April.

Voice over Not only birds from the chilly Northern hemisphere live at Slimbridge.

We think the inhibition is part of an inhibitory surround that helps focus neural activity in the dominant hemisphere .

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