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English
Etymology
From hemi- + Latin secare (“to cut”).
Verb
hemisect (third-person singular simple present hemisects, present participle hemisecting, simple past and past participle hemisected)
- (anatomy, transitive) To divide along the mesial plane or median plane.
the scientists hemisected a rat's spinal cord
hemisect a brain
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