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from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or related to the other hand; related as one hand of an individual is to the other hand of the same individual; similar, correspondent, or identical in form, as the right hand is to the left, though on opposite sides of the body and the parts are arranged in reverse order: opposed to *homochiral. See also
heterochiral .
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