What's the difference between ambidexterity and dextrous?

Ambidexterity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility.
  • (n.) Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation.
  • (n.) Double-dealing.
  • (n.) A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The posterior lesions, however, may have lowered the frequency of ambidexterity, a finding interpreted in terms of theoretical arguments concerning bilateral symmetry and the discrimination and memory of left and right.
  • (2) There were no significant differences in the prevalence of left-handedness or non-right-handedness (i.e., left-handedness and ambidexterity combined) between schizophrenic patients and normal subjects.
  • (3) The addition of a strength of preference scale makes the "mixed" classification a better indicator of ambidexterity than in the original inventory by eliminating from it subjects who show preference for the same hand for nearly all tasks.
  • (4) No differences could be found either for the right or for the left hand in force of handgrip between right- and left-handed and ambidexterous children.
  • (5) On the paper-and-pencil task 84% of the children were classified as right-handers, 8% as left-handers, and 8% as ambidexterous.
  • (6) In 5 with ambidexterity high tone audiometry failed to show any significant preference.
  • (7) The majority of that group of children included those with ambidexterity and left-handedness.
  • (8) It is assumed that in children with GSD ambidexterity may be of pathological nature.
  • (9) Analysis shows significantly more right-handedness in women and ambidexterity in men.
  • (10) Greater dissociation was statistically associated with ambidexterity of these undergraduates.
  • (11) The cats with ambidexterity and right-preference in paw use did not show any visible tremorogenic action of these drugs.
  • (12) In parents and siblings similar changes of laterality of the hand were found, in particular as regards defined and little defined dextrolaterality but not as far as ambidexterity is concerned.

Dextrous


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Dextrousness

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
  • (2) The measures of dual task interference for the two tasks did not correlate with one another; difficulty running simultaneous motor programs does therefore not explain the interference that is observed when tapping is performed while the other hand simultaneously performs a dextrous motor task.
  • (3) The former, which is found in other vertebrates, shows greater somatotopy in mammals that are 'dextrous' (e.g.
  • (4) direct corticomotoneural) in mammals that are dextrous than in mammals that are not.
  • (5) When they heard primitive British electro tracks such as A Guy Called Gerald's Voodoo Ray, they decided to make their own music, creating a bleepy track called Dextrous using a bedroom-based sampler.
  • (6) Descending spinal pathways have been described in 'non-dextrous' avian species (chickens, ducks, geese and pigeons), and the purpose of this study was to determine if there are any differences in the origins of descending projections to the spinal cord in 'dextrous' or prehensile parrots (sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, and eastern rosella, Platycerus eximius).
  • (7) This suggests that the kinesthetic projection system in raccoons and monkeys is expanded in correlation with their more dextrous use of the hand.
  • (8) In contrast to this similarity, normal dextrous subjects responded to a nonverbal auditory stimulus by increasing the metabolic rate of glucose in their right hemispheres while eight of nine chronic alcoholics did not.
  • (9) The current results may guide computational models of human haptic object classification and the development of perceptual systems for robots equipped with sensate dextrous hands, capable of intelligent exploration, recognition, and manipulation of concrete objects.
  • (10) In the patients with PCA, the plasma GH increase after arginine and after dextrous was more marked.
  • (11) Even before the uprisings, Qatar was famous for its dextrous diplomacy and readiness to mediate in regional conflicts.
  • (12) Skepta: Konnichiwa review – rhymes that are dextrous, sharp and very British Read more I was at a music industry seminar recently where people were already talking about “the Stormzy model”.
  • (13) Two decades later, Dextrous is remembered as a seminal British dance track, while the label has become a pioneer of sorts.
  • (14) Van Hove and his ensemble must have choreographed every last moment, but it nonetheless felt like an extended improvisation , created with the barest of theatrical means (a table, some chairs, a bed) and finished with dextrous lightness of touch.
  • (15) The dextrously slick and sharp punk-reggae guitar sound developed by Dave Wakeling, and the hyperactive call-and-response between him and Ranking Roger on the B-side, would briefly up the 2 Tone ante, until they left to set up their own label operation, Go-Feet.
  • (16) "You can rotate the instruments 360 degrees, so they are more dextrous than the human hand," said Renforth, Da Vinci co-ordinator at the hospital.
  • (17) Strategies are also required to ensure dextrous beam delivery and to minimize thermal injury within adjacent tissue.
  • (18) Assaidi, signed from Heerenveen in the summer, was a joy to watch on the left flank as his dextrous footwork and sinuous runs tormented Albion time and again.

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