Etymograph

English

hemineglect

From hemi- + neglect.

Formed from hemi- + neglect

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sēmi ‘half’

English hemi-

Latin neglegō ‘to make light of, disregard, not to pick up’

Latin neglēctus

Middle English neglect

English neglect

Today it means

noun A neuropsychological condition in which, after damage to one hemisphere of the brain, the patient exhibits a deficit in attention to and awareness of one side of space.

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Etymograph / hemineglect