ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Contralesional

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Contralesional is an adjective meaning (medicine) Describing the half of a patient's brain or body away from the site of a lesion, as for example with hemispatial neglect after a stroke.

Meaning

(medicine) Describing the half of a patient's brain or body away from the site of a lesion, as for example with hemispatial neglect after a stroke.

Antonyms for contralesional

Common opposites include ipsilesional.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include controlesional, contralateral, counterlateral, controlateral, paralimbic, ipsilesional.

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