Term: split-brain technique: brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: hydroxybenzoic acid: a crystalline derivative of benzoic acid → 0
Candidate hypernym: splinter group: a faction or sect that has broken away from its parent organization → 0
Candidate hypernym: seconder: someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote → 0
Candidate hypernym: ficus: large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: symphyla: small class of minute arthropods; unimportant except for the garden centipede → 0
Candidate hypernym: rutherfordium: a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized → 0
Candidate hypernym: business expense: ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in a taxpayer's business or trade → 0
Candidate hypernym: chari-nile: a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania → 0
Candidate hypernym: color wash: a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment → 0
Candidate hypernym: kangaroo rat: any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico; largest members of the family Heteromyidae → 0