In article <pfliegej.787007976 at alize.ERE.UMontreal.CA>,
pfliegej at ERE.UMontreal.CA (Pflieger Jean-Francois) wrote:
>b0017 at nibh.go.jp (Maurizio MORABITO; Tel.6661) writes:
>> > > > I need to know the name of the operation in which a person's corpus
> > > > collosum is severed.
>> > also corpus callosotomy
>> >Seems not a good latin. Maybe Corpi Callosotomy?
>> Why not only callosotomy ? There is only one corpus callosum in the
> brain.
The term you are looking for (and surely you jest) is commissurotomy. The
Californian sugeons Bogen and Vogel began a series of commissurotomies in
1961 to treat intractable epilepsy in some two dozen patients once
research had demonstrated that sectioning of the corpus callosum in
animals did not seem to impair mental faculties. Fascinating material!
