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Hemi-
Webster's Dictionary 1913
A prefix signifying half.
A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.
Same as Hemialbumose.
An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.
Anaesthesia upon one side of the body.
An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.
A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left.
One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.
A lateral half of the cerebrum.
See Semiglutin.
A pain that affects only one side of the head.
A pain that affects only one side of the head.
Hemicranis.
A half circle; more generally called a semicircle.
1. A half circle; a semicircle.
In Greek music, the lesser third.
The lesser third.
Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.
The property of crystallizing hemihedrally.
bisection Roget’s Thesaurus §91
N. bisection, # bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety
V. bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize, go halves, divide with, separate, fork, bifurcate, branch off, out, ramify
Adj. bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi
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