What's the difference between side and unilateral?

Side


Definition:

  • (n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.
  • (n.) Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.
  • (n.) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.
  • (n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
  • (n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
  • (n.) The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
  • (n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
  • (n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
  • (a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.
  • (n.) Long; large; extensive.
  • (v. i.) To lean on one side.
  • (v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.
  • (v. t.) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
  • (v. t.) To suit; to pair; to match.
  • (v. t.) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (3) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (4) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
  • (5) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (6) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
  • (7) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
  • (8) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (9) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
  • (10) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
  • (11) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
  • (12) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
  • (13) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
  • (14) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
  • (15) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
  • (16) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
  • (17) The product of this enzymatic hydrolysis was F420 with one less glutamic acid in the side chain.
  • (18) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
  • (19) Side effects were observed in 15.9% of the patients in the urapidil group and in 11.3% of the prazosin group (NS).
  • (20) Significant side-effects occurred infrequently and only 2 children lost weight during the period of medication.

Unilateral


Definition:

  • (a.) Being on one side only; affecting but one side; one-sided.
  • (a.) Pertaining to one side; one-sided; as, a unilateral raceme, in which the flowers grow only on one side of a common axis, or are all turned to one side.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
  • (2) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
  • (3) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
  • (4) Unilateral VNAB lesions induced similar alterations but these were restricted to the ipsilateral PVN and median eminence.
  • (5) The relative contributions of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression to the increase in constitutively expressed cellular proteins were examined in mouse kidneys undergoing compensatory growth following unilateral nephrectomy (UNI-NX).
  • (6) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
  • (7) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
  • (8) The H reflex response was found in the anterior tibialis muscle, at least unilaterally if not bilaterally, in eight of nine subjects with Huntington disease and in five of eight persons at risk.
  • (9) One month after unilateral transection of the fimbria-fornix an almost complete lack of cholinergic fibers persists in all layers of the dorsal hippocampus and fascia dentata ipsilateral to the lesion when compared to the contralateral hippocampus or to unlesioned control rats.
  • (10) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
  • (11) The contra-indications for them are: 1. a better visual acuity with spectacles than with contact lenses, 2. advanced cases (4th degree of Amsler) whose fitting is impossible, 3. unilateral keratoconus, 4. associated diseases such as trachomatous pannus, allergic kerato-conjunctivitis.
  • (12) A diagnosis of unilateral tuberculosis of the conjunctiva was established in a 75-year-old female patient eight years after the first manifestations of disease.
  • (13) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
  • (14) Best results are obtained with respectively unilateral changes of the adrenals or with steroid producing tumors.
  • (15) Contralateral turning behaviour following unilateral intranigral injection of a large series of GABA analogues was investigated.
  • (16) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
  • (17) In a third group, unilateral hypogastric nerve transection prior to injection of HRP-WGA into the vaginocervical walls resulted in a significant reduction in DRG cells labeled at T13, L1, L2, L6 and S1.
  • (18) The unilateral application of 0.1% bunazosin significantly lowered the IOP in the treated eye, whereas it caused no significant change in the contralateral eye, suggesting that the effect of bunazosin is due mainly to a direct and local action and is not systemic.
  • (19) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
  • (20) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.

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