The act or result of cutting something into two equal halves, or a surgical procedure that divides tissue along the midline.
From hemisect with the noun suffix '-ion,' describing the process or product of dividing something into two halves.
In neurosurgery, hemisection can refer to cutting the spinal cord in half down the middle—it demonstrates how a precise anatomical cut can show scientists exactly how the two halves of neural systems communicate.
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