Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Located on or affecting the same side of the body.
Wiktionary
- adj. anatomy, medicine on the same side of the body.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. on or relating to the same side (of the body)
Etymologies
- From Latin ipse ("self/same") + latus-eris (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Latin ipse, self + lateral. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In conclusion this meta-analysis gave a consistent pattern of an association between mobile phone use and ipsilateral glioma and acoustic neuroma using ≥10-years latency period.”
“Ovulation could occur from either ovary with embryonic development taking place in the ipsilateral oviduct and uterine horn.”
“There is NOTHING--and I mean NOTHING--that the combination of facial nerve palsy with ipsilateral oropharyngeal and auditory canal vesicular lesions could be other than Ramsay Hunt syndrome.”
“Figure 2.1 illustrates the behaviour of a typical 'graspingwith-the-hand-and-the-mouth' neuron, which was seen to fire when the animal picked up a morsel of food with its mouth (A), with the contralateral hand (B), and the ipsilateral hand (C).”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions And Emotions'
“Bring on your ipsilateral translation of the condyle, your girt lines and masting falls!”
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » For the love of chemical synthesis
“When temporalis relaxation and ipsilateral translation of the condyle occurs unilaterally, the remaining scheme of occluding teeth becomes an influential factor in the presenting symptoms, of which, contacting canines during mandibular depression is highly desirable, as it minimizes condylar translation and muscle intensity, while directing the vector pull on the condyle more anteriorly than a posterior contact.”
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » No more grinding teeth
“Applying crushed ice to the palate, he found that ipsilateral temporal and orbital pain developed 20-30 seconds later.”
“A lesion in the latter prevents adequate information from the nonpreferred hand being transmitted from the contralateral to the ipsilateral dominant parietal lobe for integration with the language system and thus the name of the letter shape.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“The examiner places, one at a time, several items (e.g., a key, several coins of different sizes, the cap of a ballpoint pen—all items that make no noise when palpated) on the palm (usually the left) ipsilateral to the side of the nondominant (usually the right) hemisphere.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“The lower (temporal) electrode is placed as for bilateral ECT, and the upper (parietal) electrode is placed above this, about 1 inch ipsilateral to the vertex.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ipsilateral’.
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medtech
terms found in documentation for implantable medical devices and IVD equip
distal, luer, stopcock, lumen, tortuosity, anneal, flouroscopy, radiopaque, distractor, toeing, tang, endoprosthesis and 173 more...
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250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
venturi, aesir, affenpinscher, rottweiler, amanuensis, balletomane, hansard, sangfroid, yukata, capriccio, cuisse, heriot and 237 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, I
irenic, inimical, ignotism, infrangible, internecine, illumine, ingot, imposter, iconoclast, indefeasible, indefatigable, impingement and 184 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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words that trip off the tongue
ideology, phallocentric, parapraxis, gelid, illusion, tangible, tangibility, crux, medusa, noir, chloroform, chap and 98 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Words from a 2006 'A Scanner Darkly' film.
aphid, scramble, purport, toll, lurch, cold turkey, pharmacopoeia, vasoconstriction, inordinate, front money, meth, providence and 67 more...
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The Brain
somatosensory cortex, optic chiasm, cerebral hemisphere, dura matter, meninges, neurotransmitters, proprioception, amygdala, axon, blood-brain barrier, hippocampus, fissures and 49 more...
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syncrisis
AKA: Opposites attract.
recto, verso, dextral, sinistral, dorsal, ventral, distal, proximal, anterior, posterior, rostral, caudal and 8 more...
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beautiful "i" words
incantation, incalculable, inconsequential, inconsolable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, indefatigably, indelicate, inexplicable, inferno, infuriating, ingloriously and 37 more...
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