| hemianopic scotoma | A scotoma involving half of the central field. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hemianopic spectacles | Spectacles with a prism or mirror to allow the individual with homonymous hemianopia to see objects in his blind half field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemianopsia | <neurology, ophthalmology> Blindness for half the field of vision in one or both eyes. Origin: Gr. Opsis = vision (09 Mar 1998) |
| hemianosmia | <neurology> Loss of smell in one nostril (27 Sep 1997) |
| hemiaplasia | Absence of one lobe of a bilobed organ; used especially with reference to the thyroid gland. Origin: hemi-+ aplasia (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiapraxia | <neurology> Inability to exercise purposeful movements on one side of the body. (27 Sep 1997) |
| hemiarthroplasty | Arthroplasty in which one joint surface is replaced with artificial material, usually metal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiasynergia | Asynergia affecting one side of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiataxia | Ataxia affecting one side of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiathetosis | Athetosis affecting one hand, or one hand and foot, only. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiatrophy | Atrophy of one lateral half of a part or of an organ, as the face or tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiazygos vein | <anatomy, vein> Formed by the merger of the left ascending lumbar vein with the left subcostal vein or a communication from the inferior vena cava, it pierces the left crus of the diaphragm, ascends along the left side of the bodies of the lower thoracic vertebrae, opposite the eighth vertebra, crosses the midline behind the aorta, thoracic duct, and oesophagus, and empties into the azygos vein, sometimes in common with the accessory hemiazygos vein. Synonym: vena hemiazygos, vena azygos minor inferior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiballism | Synonym: hemiballismus. Origin: hemi-+ G. Ballismos, jumping about (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiballismus | Ballism involving one side of the body. Synonym: hemiballism. Origin: hemi-+ G. Ballismos, jumping about (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiblock | Arrest of the impulse in one of the two main divisions of the left branch of the bundle of His; i.e., in either the anterior (superior) division or the posterior (inferior) division. (05 Mar 2000) |