hemisphered
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hemisphere + -ed.
Adjective
[edit]hemisphered (comparative more hemisphered, superlative most hemisphered)
- 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.
- 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.