- Body
relative directions (also
known as
egocentric coordinates) are
geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a
human person's body or a road...
- "right" (dexter).
Other disciplines use
different terms (such as dextro- and
laevo-rotary in chemistry, or
clockwise and
anticlockwise in physics) or simply...
- nomenclature,
either D from
Latin Dexter meaning "right", or L from
Latin Laevo meaning "left" In the R/S nomenclature,
either R from
Latin Rectus meaning...
-
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comes from the
Latin word dexter,
meaning "right" (as
opposed to left).
Laevo- or levo-
comes from the
Latin laevus,
meaning "left side". The equivalent...
- It also
generates a TRPM8-mediated
cooling sensation similar to menthol.
Laevo-borneol is used in perfumery. It has a
balsamic odour type with pine, woody...
- (1820),
atropine (1831),
scopolamine (aka hyoscine, aka
laevo-duboisine) (1833?),
hyoscyamine or
laevo-atropine (1831),
opium salts mixtures (c. 1840s), chloral...
-
dissolved in water. They each
exist as
several isomers with dextro- and
laevo-rotatory
forms that
cause polarized light to
diverge to the
right or the...
-
forms are also
referred to, in
older texts, by
their optical rotations of
laevo (l)
referring to R-(−)-carvone, and
dextro (d)
referring to S-(+)-carvone...
- Gr**** "D") for a right-handed
twist (pictured). Also cf. dextro- and levo- (
laevo-).
Chiral ligands confer chirality to a
metal complex, as
illustrated by...
