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: brain surgery: any surgical procedure involving the brain → 1
Candidate hypernym: dumbwaiter: a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another → 0
Candidate hypernym: angiotelectasia: dilation and enlargement of arterioles → 0
Candidate hypernym: bluffer: a person who tries to bluff other people → 0
Candidate hypernym: zairese: a native or inhabitant of Zaire → 0
Candidate hypernym: fresco: a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster → 0
Candidate hypernym: linemen: the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage → 0
Candidate hypernym: converso: (medieval Spain and Portugal) a Jew or Moor who professed to convert to Christianity in order to avoid persecution or expulsion → 0
Candidate hypernym: greater yellowlegs: a variety of yellowlegs → 0
Candidate hypernym: tineola: webbing clothes moths → 0
Candidate hypernym: superior vena cava: receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos and both brachiocephalic veins → 0