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Preference most humans show for one side of their body over the other
term laterality refers to asymmetric preference, usage, skill, or specialization of symmetric body parts in an organism. Humans exhibit laterality in many
Laterality
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up lateral in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lateral is a geometric term of location which may also refer to: Lateral (anatomy), a term of location
Lateral
Academic journal
Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of laterality and related behavioral
Laterality_(journal)
Type of consonant
to be defined as to laterality, as either median or lateral. However, languages may be ambiguous as to some consonants' laterality. A well-known example
Lateral_consonant
Preference or tendency to use a specific hand
cerebral laterality of writing and the relationship to handedness: a functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound investigation". Laterality. 29 (1): 117–150
Handedness
Specialization of some cognitive functions in one side of the brain
cerebral laterality of writing and the relationship to handedness: a functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound investigation". Laterality. 29 (1): 117–150
Lateralization of brain function
Lateralization_of_brain_function
Tendency of the brain to prefer visual input from one eye to the other
visual input from one eye to the other. It is somewhat analogous to the laterality of right- or left-handedness; however, the side of the dominant eye and
Ocular_dominance
Manner of solving problems
Lateral thinking is a manner of solving problems using an indirect and creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious. Synonymous to
Lateral_thinking
(non-clefted). To represent laterality and severity of any cleft lip, a lowercase prefix composed of two letters is added: that is, for laterality, u designates unilateral
Classification of cleft lip and cleft palate
Classification_of_cleft_lip_and_cleft_palate
Rare neurodegenerative disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a rare terminal neurodegenerative disease defined
ALS
Configuration and interaction of the articulators when making a speech sound
called oral. Laterality is the release of airflow at the side of the tongue. This can be combined with other manners, resulting in lateral approximants
Manner_of_articulation
Consonantal sounds represented by ⟨l⟩ in IPA
Voiced dental and alveolar lateral approximants are a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the
Voiced dental and alveolar lateral approximants
Voiced_dental_and_alveolar_lateral_approximants
Structures within the human brain
The lateral ventricles are the two largest ventricles of the brain and contain cerebrospinal fluid. Each cerebral hemisphere contains a lateral ventricle
Lateral_ventricles
Research hypothesis
and male sexual orientation Handedness § Sexuality and gender identity Laterality Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation Transgender McManus, Chris (2019)
Handedness and sexual orientation
Handedness_and_sexual_orientation
The lateral aperture, lateral aperture of fourth ventricle or foramen of Luschka (after anatomist Hubert von Luschka) is an opening at the lateral extremity
Lateral_aperture
Topics referred to by the same term
Lateral support may mean: Lateral support, a type of support (structure) to help prevent sideways movement Lateral and subjacent support, a legal term
Lateral_support
Facial bone
paired irregular bone, situated at the upper and lateral part of the face and forming part of the lateral wall and floor of the orbit, of the temporal fossa
Zygomatic_bone
Volcanic eruption which goes sideways
A lateral eruption or lateral blast is a volcanic eruption which is directed laterally from a volcano rather than upwards from the summit. Lateral eruptions
Lateral_eruption
Area of all the sides of the object, excluding the area of its base and top
The lateral surface of a three-dimensional object is the surface of all its sides, excluding its base and top (when they exist). The distinction between
Lateral_surface
Central part of the living body
skin is provided by the lateral and dorsal cutaneous branches. Distribution of cutaneous nerves. Ventral aspect. Dorsal and lateral cutaneous branches labeled
Torso
Type of short pass in football
In gridiron football, a lateral pass or lateral (officially backward pass in American football and onside pass in Canadian football), also called a pitch
Lateral_pass
Sensory system in fish
The lateral line, also called the lateral line organ, is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients
Lateral_line
Major ligament of the uterus
The cardinal ligament (also transverse cervical ligament, lateral cervical ligament, or Mackenrodt's ligament) is a major ligament of the uterus formed
Cardinal_ligament
Characteristics of the brain that differentiate the male brain and the female brain
found that sex accounted for less than 1% of the brain's structure or laterality, finding large group-level differences only in total brain volume. A subsequent
Neuroscience of sex differences
Neuroscience_of_sex_differences
Measurement scale for handedness
person's right or left hand in everyday activities, sometimes referred to as laterality. The inventory can be used by an observer assessing the person, or by
Edinburgh Handedness Inventory
Edinburgh_Handedness_Inventory
Crevice in the brain separating the frontal and parietal lobes from the temporal
The lateral sulcus (or lateral fissure, also called Sylvian fissure, after Franciscus Sylvius) is the most prominent sulcus of each cerebral hemisphere
Lateral_sulcus
Plant root
Lateral roots, emerging from the pericycle (meristematic tissue), extend horizontally from the primary root (radicle) and over time make up the iconic
Lateral_root
Consonantal sound
The lateral clicks are a family of click consonants found only in African languages. The clicking sound used by equestrians to urge on their horses is
Lateral_click
Brain structure
The lateral lemniscus is a tract of axons in the brainstem that carries information about sound from the cochlear nucleus to various brainstem nuclei
Lateral_lemniscus
Terms describing animal motion
axis of the body, carried out by internal rotators. External rotation (lateral rotation or extorsion) is rotation away from the center of the body, carried
Anatomical_terms_of_motion
Inability to differentiate left and right directions
inaccuracy can lead to severe consequences, including laterality errors and wrong-side surgeries. Laterality errors in the field of aviation may also lead to
Left–right_confusion
Vein channel in the brain
attached margin of the falx cerebri. It allows blood to drain from the lateral aspects of the anterior cerebral hemispheres to the confluence of sinuses
Superior_sagittal_sinus
Consonantal sounds represented by ⟨ɬ⟩ in IPA
A voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet
Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives
Voiceless_dental_and_alveolar_lateral_fricatives
Abnormal placement of organs in the chest and abdomen
Marlene; Geva, Tal; Getz, Kelly D.; Botto, Lorenzo D. (2014-10-01). "Laterality defects in the national birth defects prevention study (1998–2007): Birth
Situs_ambiguus
Consonant sound
are not defined as lateral consonants because no language makes a distinction between the two. In some languages, the laterality of a phoneme may be
Median_consonant
Oral puzzle guessing game
Situation puzzles, often referred to as minute mysteries, lateral thinking puzzles or yes/no puzzles, are puzzles in which other participants are to construct
Situation_puzzle
Tissue on the outer side of the kneecap
The lateral retinaculum is the fibrous tissue on the lateral (outer) side of the kneecap (patella). The kneecap has both a medial (on the inner aspect)
Lateral_retinaculum
Lateral hearts, also known as pseudohearts or commissural vessels, are blood vessels on either side of the alimentary canal of some annelids that pump
Lateral_heart
Method of solving computing problems
Lateral computing is a lateral thinking approach to solving computing problems. Lateral thinking has been made popular by Edward de Bono. This thinking
Lateral_computing
Embryonic shoot located in the axil of a leaf or branch
The axillary bud (or lateral bud) is an embryonic or organogenic shoot located in the axil of a leaf. Each bud has the potential to form shoots, and may
Axillary_bud
Depressions over the gluteal fold
topography of the sacroiliac joints. The Latin name is fossae lumbales laterales ("lateral lumbar indentations"). These indentations are created by a short
Dimples_of_Venus
Two types of chirality
sinister, as used in heraldry Helicity (disambiguation) Jeremy (snail) Laterality Left and right (disambiguation) Symmetry Terms of orientation Schilthuizen
Sinistral_and_dextral
Hand-to-hand combat terminology
(2019): 257. Baker, Joseph, and Jörg Schorer. "The Southpaw advantage?-lateral preference in mixed martial arts." PloS one 8.11 (2013): e79793. Why are
Southpaw_stance
Medical condition
articulation, the IPA transcription would be [θ, ð] or variants thereof. A lateral lisp occurs when the [s] and [z] sounds are produced with air-flow over
Lisp
Phrase
Raymond C.; Goldstein, Leonide (May 1976). "Electroencephalographic Laterality Changes During Human Sexual Orgasm". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 5 (3)
La_petite_mort
Structure at the rear of the vertebrate brain, beneath the cerebrum
and a lateral branch. The medial branch continues backward to the cerebellar notch between the two hemispheres of the cerebellum; while the lateral branch
Cerebellum
and two lateral glossoepiglottic folds; the lateral folds are partly attached to the wall of the pharynx. Median glossoepiglottic fold Lateral glossoepiglottic
Glossoepiglottic_folds
Leg bone in vertebrates
The fibula (pl.: fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below. It is the
Fibula
Biological membrane that separates the interior of a cell from its outside environment
state. It means the lipid molecules are free to diffuse and exhibit rapid lateral diffusion along the layer in which they are present. However, the exchange
Cell_membrane
Peripheral neuroanatomic structure
The lateral cord is the part of the brachial plexus formed by the anterior divisions of the upper (C5-C6) and middle trunks (C7). Its name comes from
Lateral_cord
Horizontal body position
recovery position (coma position), one of a series of variations on a lateral recumbent or three-quarters prone position of the body, into which an unconscious
Lying_(position)
Protusions from the body in invertebrates
refers to lateral outgrowths or protrusions from the body. Parapodia are predominantly found in annelids, where they are paired, unjointed lateral outgrowths
Parapodium
Cybersecurity term for attack strategies
Lateral movement refers to the techniques that cyber attackers, or threat actors, use to move progressively through a network in search of key data and
Lateral movement (cybersecurity)
Lateral_movement_(cybersecurity)
most lateral of the anterior nerve roots, and the lateral funiculus between the exit of these roots and the posterolateral sulcus. The lateral funiculus
Lateral_funiculus
Glacially formed accumulation of debris
groundmass of finely divided clayey material sometimes called glacial flour. Lateral moraines are those formed at the side of the ice flow, and terminal moraines
Moraine
English presenter (born 1980s)
comedy series with The Technical Difficulties, and the brain-teaser podcast Lateral. In January 2024 he took a break from a decade-long schedule of consistent
Tom_Scott_(presenter)
Topics referred to by the same term
Lateral epicondyle can refer to: Lateral epicondyle of the humerus (dorsal epicondyle in birds) Lateral epicondyle of the femur This disambiguation page
Lateral_epicondyle
Species of true bugs
moderately convex in laterality with a coarsely serrated margin. The posterior margin is moderately wide and has truncated lateral angles. The operculum
Ayuthia_spectabile
Measure of material deformation under longitudinal stress
In continuum mechanics, lateral strain, also known as transverse strain, is defined as the ratio of the change in diameter of a circular bar of a material
Lateral_strain
Region of the tibia bone
The intercondylar area is the separation between the medial and lateral condyle on the upper extremity of the tibia. The anterior and posterior cruciate
Intercondylar_area
Frontal part of an animal's body, between its head and abdomen
vertically and from the edge of the sternum to the mid-axillary line laterally. The female nipple is surrounded for half an inch by a more or less pigmented
Thorax
Lateral recess of fourth ventricle (also known as the lateral recess), is a paired extension of the fourth ventricle of the brain that projects laterally
Lateral_recess
Topics referred to by the same term
Lateral pterygoid may refer to: Lateral pterygoid muscle Lateral pterygoid nerve Lateral pterygoid plate This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Lateral_pterygoid
Problem in visual perception
Lateral masking is a problem for the human visual perception of identical or similar entities in close proximity. This can be illustrated by the difficulty
Lateral_masking
Topics referred to by the same term
left-handed screw threads) Left- and right-handedness Left- and right-laterality Left- and right-ocular dominance Left–right political spectrum Left and
Left_and_right
Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ʎ⟩ in IPA
A voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that
Voiced palatal lateral approximant
Voiced_palatal_lateral_approximant
Sea mark marking the edge of a channel
A lateral buoy, lateral post or lateral mark, as defined by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities, is
Lateral_mark
Front teeth of most mammals
by the maxillary central incisors, the mandibular lateral incisors and finally the maxillary laterals. The rest of the primary dentition erupts after the
Incisor
Brain region
The lateral hypothalamus (LH), also called the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA), contains the primary orexinergic nucleus within the hypothalamus that widely
Lateral_hypothalamus
Thigh bone
which diverges proximally and distal as the medial and lateral ridge. Proximally the lateral ridge of the linea aspera becomes the gluteal tuberosity
Femur
Basketball move
The Euro step, two-step, or long lateral Nate Step is a basketball move in which an offensive player picks up their dribble, takes a step in one direction
Euro_step
Auditory test to assess selective attention
significant sex difference in the magnitude of laterality effects, with men obtaining larger laterality effects than women." However, the authors discuss
Dichotic_listening
Capacity of an excited neuron to reduce activity of its neighbors
In neurobiology, lateral inhibition is the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors. Lateral inhibition disables the spreading
Lateral_inhibition
Term in human neuroanatomy referring to several things
lobe. Conditions include leftward functional hemispheric lateralization, loss of laterality for language comprehension, a reduction in gyrification, brain
Brain_asymmetry
Cysts located adjacent to the root of a vital tooth
"Lateral periodontal cysts (LPCs) are defined as non-keratinised and non-inflammatory developmental cysts located adjacent or lateral to the root of a
Lateral_periodontal_cyst
Sinus in the human head
creating a cavity called the lateral sellar compartment bordered by the temporal bone of the skull and the sphenoid bone, lateral to the sella turcica. The
Cavernous_sinus
American actor (1972–2026)
(2025). In 2025, he announced that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which led to his death in 2026 at the age of 53. Eric
Eric_Dane
Violence within a marginalised community
Lateral violence or horizontal hostility is a form of intra-group conflict where members of an oppressed group displace their aggression towards their
Lateral_violence
Medical condition
Lateral medullary syndrome is a neurological disorder causing a range of symptoms due to ischemia in the lateral part of the medulla oblongata in the brainstem
Lateral_medullary_syndrome
Medical condition
mistaken for distal subungual onychomycosis due to the similar appearance of lateral and distal nail lifting with subungual hyperkeratosis. Unlike onychomycosis
Onychomycosis
Projection on the femur
The lateral condyle is one of the two projections on the lower extremity of the femur. The other one is the medial condyle. The lateral condyle is the
Lateral_condyle_of_femur
Large forearm artery
In human anatomy, the radial artery is the main artery of the lateral aspect of the forearm. The radial artery arises from the bifurcation of the brachial
Radial_artery
Bone that connects the humerus and clavicle
Dorsal surface of left scapula. Lateral border shown in red. Left scapula. Lateral border shown in red. Animation. Lateral border shown in red. The medial
Scapula
Twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet
lateral approximant (the sound represented in IPA by lowercase [l]) occurs before a vowel, as in lip or blend, while the velarized alveolar lateral approximant
L
2025 studio album by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe
Lateral is a 2025 collaborative studio album by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe, described by the pair as "Space Music". Each album cover of the trilogy features
Lateral_(album)
Family of consonant sounds
A lateral flap is a family of consonantal sounds, used in some spoken languages. There are four attested or claimed lateral flaps in the world's languages:
Lateral_flap
Type of sensory nerve
The lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm (or lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve) is a sensory nerve representing the continuation of the musculocutaneous
Lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm
Lateral_cutaneous_nerve_of_forearm
Condition in which the outer part of the elbow becomes sore and tender
known as lateral epicondylitis, is an enthesopathy (attachment point disease) of the origin of the extensor carpi radialis brevis on the lateral epicondyle
Tennis_elbow
Lateral bodies are structures that sit on the concave sides of the viral core of a poxvirus and is surrounded by a membrane. They serve as immunomodulatory
Lateral_body
Cutaneous nerve of the leg
generally considered a pure cutaneous nerve of the posterolateral leg to the lateral ankle. The sural nerve originates from a combination of either the sural
Sural_nerve
Ability to do any task equally well with either hand
dialnet Unirioja Laterality and sports performance/Lateralidad y Rendimiento Deportivo Bache, M.A.B.; Naranjo, J. (2014). "Laterality and sports performance"
Ambidexterity
Sensory pathway from the skin to the thalamus
adjacent pathways: anterior and lateral. The anterior spinothalamic tract carries information about crude touch. The lateral spinothalamic tract conveys pain
Spinothalamic_tract
Part of the brain stem
the substantia nigra integrates voluntary movements. The lateral tegmental field (LTF) or lateral tegmentum (more specifically the dorsal motor nucleus of
Tegmentum
Opening at the back of the mouth into the throat
on the lateral walls of the oropharynx is the tonsillar fossa which is the location of the palatine tonsil. Each arch runs downwards, laterally and forwards
Fauces_(throat)
A lateral shoot, commonly known as a branch, is a part of a plant's shoot system that develops from axillary buds on the stem's surface, extending laterally
Lateral_shoot
Transfer of genes from unrelated organisms
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of genetic material between organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission
Horizontal_gene_transfer
Topics referred to by the same term
Lateral horn may refer to: Lateral horn of insect brain (an olfactory area) Lateral horn of spinal cord This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Lateral_horn
Sensory nerve in the forearm
commencement of its lower third. It is a sensory nerve. It lies at first slightly lateral to the radial artery, concealed beneath the brachioradialis. In the middle
Superficial branch of radial nerve
Superficial_branch_of_radial_nerve
Neurological test of the brain hemispheres
Researchers are looking into non-invasive ways to determine language and memory laterality—such as fMRI, TMS, magnetoencephalography, and near-infrared spectroscopy
Wada_test
Bone of the spine
sacrum has a base, an apex, and three surfaces – a pelvic, dorsal and a lateral surface. The base of the sacrum, which is broad and expanded, is directed
Sacrum
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Girl/Female
Welsh
Thorn.
Girl/Female
Tamil
New, ***
Girl/Female
Indian
Sound
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit, Thai
Beautiful Woman; Blossom of the Salmali
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Heart; Truthful; Honest; Joy; Beautiful
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Bud; The Mango Tree
Boy/Male
Biblical
An eminence or high place.
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Who Lives in Mind
Surname or Lastname
English
English : according to Reaney, a habitational name from Haston in Shropshire, which is possibly named with Old English hÄ“afod ‘head’ + stÄn ‘stone’. However, the present-day concentration of the name in Scotland suggests that in some cases at least it could perhaps be from one of the places mentioned at Hairston.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Sacred river, Good smell
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n.
The state or condition of being lateral.