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| | Chapter 7 - Vision |
 | | Loss of half of the visual field is called hemianopsia. |
 | | If the visual field is half-lost on either the right or the left, as for example in left optic tract section, Figure 7-19d, the loss is called homonymous hemianopsia, in this case, right homonymous hemianopsia. |
 | | A quadrantanopsia results from interruption of either the superior or inferior optic radiation (clinically this usually involves a lesion in either parietal or temporal cortex) or alternatively from a partial lesion of the calcarine cortex, lower quadrants in the lingual gyrus, upper in the cuneate gyrus (Fig. |
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