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This may account for the fact that all living things are essentially dissymmetrical, more right-handed than lefthanded.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the motion of solar light is dissymmetrical.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

A living cell appears to us, then, as a laboratory of dissymmetrical forces, a bit of dissymmetrical protoplasm acting under the influence of the sun--that is to say, under the influence of exterior dissymmetrical forces.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Natural dissymmetrical substances--gum, sugar, tartaric and malic acids, quinine, strychnine, essence of turpentine, and the like--may be and are employed in forming new compounds which remain dissymmetrical though they are artificially prepared.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Pasteur pointed out that all mineral substances--that is, all the natural products not due to living energy--have a superposable image and are, therefore, not dissymmetrical.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)