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lateral rectus |
lateral rectus muscle |
lateral thinking |
lateral ventricle |
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laterality
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laterality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun laterality has 3 senses
- laterality(n = noun.cognition) lateralisation, lateralization - localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain; Array is a kind of localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization, localization of function, localization principle
- laterality(n = noun.attribute) handedness - the property of using one hand more than the other; Array is a kind of asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance
- laterality(n = noun.attribute) dominance - superior development of one side of the body; Array is a kind of bodily property
has particulars: ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, left-handedness, sinistrality, dextrality, right-handedness
ROGET THESAURUS
laterality
Laterality
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.
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