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split brain [2 records]

Record 1 2007-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

A condition in which two servers in a cluster have lost communication with each other.

OBS

Each of the servers views itself as the master server in the cluster and tries to load all cluster resources.

Key term(s)
  • split-brain

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

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Record 2 1993-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neurosurgery
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

Technique in which two independently though not necessarily equally functioning cerebral hemispheres (of a patient with massive lesions of one hemisphere) have been created by surgical transection of the corpus callosum and other commissure.

OBS

Also applied to the brain itself, which has been divided by severing the corpus callosum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Neurochirurgie
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Intervention chirurgicale consistant à sectionner les fibres unissant les deux hémisphères cérébraux et en particulier le corps calleux.

OBS

à cerveau dédoublé : qualifie un individu dont on a sectionné les fibres nerveuses du corps calleux pour empêcher les deux hémisphères du cerveau d'échanger leurs informations.

CONT

Chez le sujet à «cerveau dédoublé» («split-brain») dont les hémisphères ne peuvent échanger l'information, il existe deux reconstructions indépendantes.

Spanish

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