diaschisis

[ dahy-as-kuh-sis ]

nounMedicine/Medical.
  1. a disturbance or loss of function in one part of the brain due to a localized injury in another part.

Origin of diaschisis

1
First recorded in 1910–15; from New Latin, from Greek diáschisis “a division”; see dia-, schiz-, -sis

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