- Look up
lateral in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lateral is a
geometric term of
location which may also
refer to:
Lateral (anatomy), a term of location...
- The term
laterality refers to the
preference most
humans show for one side of
their body over the other.
Examples include left-handedness/right-handedness...
- A
lateral eruption or
lateral blast is a
volcanic eruption which is
directed laterally from a
volcano rather than
upwards from the summit.
Lateral eruptions...
- A
lateral is a
consonant in
which the
airstream proceeds along one or both of the
sides of the tongue, but it is
blocked by the
tongue from
going through...
- The
lateral surface of an
object is all of the
sides of the object,
excluding its base and top (when they exist). The
lateral surface area is the area...
-
Lateral thinking is a
manner of
solving problems using an
indirect and
creative approach via
reasoning that is not
immediately obvious.
Synonymous to...
- The
lateral aperture,
lateral aperture of
fourth ventricle or
foramen of
Luschka (after
anatomist Hubert von Luschka) is an
opening at the
lateral extremity...
- The
lateral line, also
called the
lateral line
organ (LLO), is a
system of
sensory organs found in fish, used to
detect movement, vibration, and pressure...
-
Lateral release may
refer to:
Lateral release (surgery), a
surgical procedure Lateral release (phonetics), a type of
articulation of a
sound This disambiguation...
- The
lateral retinaculum is the
fibrous tissue on the
lateral (outer) side of the
kneecap (patella). The
kneecap has both a
medial (on the
inner aspect)...
