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n. - Severing the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres in man and in the higher mammals so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy).

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  • All of this makes me wonder - is the optic chiasm cut during the corpus callosotomy and if so, does the person lack depth perception?
  • A full corpus callosotomy creates some interesting side effects - but not the severe one depicted on the show of not being able to identify anything.
  • Last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy depicted a patient who underwent a "corpus callosotomy" and then was unable to identify his wife, baby, and a simple object in the...
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