left hemisphere

left hemisphere
noun
the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body
Syn: ↑left brain
Hypernyms: ↑hemisphere, ↑cerebral hemisphere
Part Meronyms: ↑language area, ↑language zone

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  • left-brain, left-brained. — left brain «lehft brayn», the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain, which is understood to dominate analytic thought processes, mathematical calculations, speech and language, as well as controlling movements on the right side of the body.… …   Useful english dictionary

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