Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Preference in using one side of the body over the other.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being lateral.
- noun The state or condition of having sides.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or condition of being lateral.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state or quality of being
lateral
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain
- noun the property of using one hand more than the other
- noun superior development of one side of the body
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Examples
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In addition to the laterality of the fracture, right vs. left, the kind of fracture -- open vs. closed, location on the bone -- distal vs. proximal, and whether this was the initial or a subsequent encounter, doctors will need to be much more explicit when documenting care.
Janet Dillione: What's Treated, What's Coded -- How It's Changing and Why It Matters Janet Dillione 2011
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May your laterality remain compliant and your verticulosis as stiff as ever.
BSNYC Summer Recess Announcement (and Friday Fun Quiz!) BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Half-height and full-height cover each serve a purpose, as the verticality/laterality of each is significant full-height cover is useful against elevated enemies, while half-height cover is invalidated; full-height cover forces actors to alter their lateral path while half-height can be vaulted, etc.
Archive 2009-02-01 Steve gaynor 2009
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Half-height and full-height cover each serve a purpose, as the verticality/laterality of each is significant full-height cover is useful against elevated enemies, while half-height cover is invalidated; full-height cover forces actors to alter their lateral path while half-height can be vaulted, etc.
Basics of effective FPS encounter design (via F.E.A.R. and F.E.A.R. 2) Steve gaynor 2009
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Scientific American on neuromorphics, laterality, apophenia:
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Scientific American on neuromorphics, laterality, apophenia »
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Scientific American on neuromorphics, laterality, apophenia:
Mind Hacks: Scientific American on neuromorphics, laterality, apophenia 2005
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Mind Hacks: Scientific American on neuromorphics, laterality, apophenia
Mind Hacks: Scientific American on neuromorphics, laterality, apophenia 2005
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I am informed that the outer wall is twelve cubits in -- ah -- laterality.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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Presence and laterality of brain damage predicted from responses to a short aphasia screening test.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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