1. brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
split-brain technique
n 1: brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and
sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that
communication between the cerebral hemispheres is
interrupted