(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side; -- opposed to right, when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the left hand, or arm; the left ear. Also said of the corresponding side of the lower animals.
(n.) That part of surrounding space toward which the left side of one's body is turned; as, the house is on the left when you face North.
(n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer. See Center, and Right.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(4) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(5) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(6) The clinically normotensive cases had greater left ventricular mass than the normotensive controls (p less than 0.02).
(7) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
(8) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(9) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(10) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(11) That's why the big dreams have come from the smaller candidates such as the radical left's Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
(12) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(13) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
(14) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(15) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(16) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(17) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
(18) For SP and NKA the decrease was apparent in all brain regions and both in the right and left hemispheres.
(19) The effects of tachycardia caused by ectopic right or left ventricular stimulation on ventricular recovery potentials were studied in 30 dogs.
(20) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
Preorder
Definition:
(v. t.) To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.
Example Sentences:
(1) PwC has advised those who paid for the preorder with a credit card to contact their card issuer, which can be liable to make a refund under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act.
(2) Initially PwC had said customers who had preordered the phones would be entitled to cancel their order and receive a full refund.
(3) For the Apple customers who had preordered their new iPhones through Phones 4u before the administrators were called in, the news that they are just casualties of the broader phone market won't be much compensation.
(4) The company has just completed preorders and will now sell Laserlights through Evans Cycles shops in the UK as well as through its own website.
(5) Before the launch, China Unicom had had 300,000 preorders for the device, compared with the 200,000 it had for the iPhone 4S in January.
(6) The media lapped it up, as did consumers, who preordered Tesla’s home battery solution, Powerwall, in droves.
(7) Laserlights were shipped to preorders in January this year.
(8) Customers who preordered Apple’s iPhone 6 through Phones 4u before it collapsed have been told they will not receive a refund.
(9) What these people are waiting for is the launch of the epic online sci-fi adventure Destiny , the biggest, most costly to make video game, the most preordered piece of entertainment software in history.
(10) Therefore customers who have preordered an iPhone 6 through Phones 4U will not receive their purchase,” it said.
(11) In fact, there's a game store here having a midnight launch for PS4 but not Xbox One due to low preorders.
(12) "I will be cancelling my preorder, I will not make games with the Rift, and I am not associating myself with a Facebook affiliated company."
(13) The retailer had allowed people to preorder the devices on its site until it was forced to close after mobile phone networks withdrew their businessfrom the company.
(14) An updated version of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War On Secrecy can be preordered for £5.99 (RRP £7.99) at guardianbookshop.co.uk .
(15) Neither a specific preordering of axons in the retinotectal pathway nor activity-dependent axon-target interactions are required for appropriate axonal targeting.