(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).
(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.
Sinistral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.
(a.) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simple genetic factors do not appear to be responsible for these sinistral tendencies.
(2) Sixty right-handed subjects, divided into four groups of 15 according to sex and familial sinistrality (FS), performed a test of language lateralization.
(3) When immediate relatives of the original subject pool were tested on hypnotic susceptibility level, sinistral relatives scored lower in susceptibility than dextral relatives.
(4) The relations of hand performance to the degree of left-hand preference, and left- minus right-hand performance were studied in left-handed male and female subjects considering familial sinistrality and writing hand.
(5) Controlling for age and family size, a significant effect for degree of familial sinistrality was found in the girls but not in the boys.
(6) Self-reported parental sinistrality was more common in respondents with a consistent left hand preference.
(7) All dextrals and those sinistral subjects who used the right hand in acquisition showed superior transfer to the identical maze.
(8) It is argued that the right hemisphere is more specifically organised in strong sinistrals than the general model would predict.
(9) In contrast, the P1 and P2 asymmetries were uninfluenced by lexical class or familial sinistrality.
(10) Support for this theory was obtained by comparing the use of autoerotic fantasy and imagery in another group distinguished by their degree of cerebral lateralization: dextral vs. sinistral males.
(11) Familial sinistrality and hand posture, on the whole, did not influence tapping performances.
(12) Thirty-one children with right (n = 18) and left (n = 13) congenital hemiplegia were compared for incidence of hand- and foot-preference, eye-dominance, and familial sinistrality.
(13) We now report a study using subjects selected according to criteria similar to those of Tankle and Heilman, and find under these conditions that sinistrals are indeed significantly inferior to dextrals.
(14) Females and dextrals made more correct responses than males or sinistrals.
(15) Both dextrals and sinistrals showed the same overall pattern deviation: in the tactile scanning task, both right and left hands deviated to the left of the midpoint and in the kinesthetic scanning tasks, the right hand deviated to the left and the left hand to the right of the midpoint.
(16) A comparison of the incidence of FS in mentally retarded and nonretarded samples indicated that a positive history of familial sinistrality (FS+) was significantly more likely to occur in mildly retarded individuals.
(17) This study assessed possible influences of handedness, sex, familial sinistrality (FS), and self-rated androgyny on language laterality and on spatial and verbal test performances of 225 right-handers and 134 left-handers.
(18) Sinistral portal hypertension is a clinical syndrome of splenic vein thrombosis caused by pancreatic pathology and manifests as bleeding gastric varices in patients with a patent portal vein and normal hepatic function.
(19) Guidelines for management of pancreatic trauma are (1) resection of sinistral gland for perforating injuries of the body or tail; (2) drainage of perforations of the pancreatic head when the major duct is intact; (3) resection of duodenum and pancreatic head for devitalizing injury of both structures.
(20) Such a "gastrosplenic artery" leaves the main trunk of the splenic artery in its middle segment in cranio--sinistral direction and falls apart into a posterior gastric and a superior splenic branch both with various differences in caliber.