What's the difference between sinistral and sinistrous?
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.
Sinistrous
Definition:
(a.) Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
(a.) Wrong; absurd; perverse.
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.