dissymmetrical
- a word derived from dissymmetry.
Example Sentences
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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
It can manufacture, in its turn, new dissymmetrical substances which add to or take away from its energy.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
The universe is dissymmetrical; for, placing before a mirror the group of bodies which compose the solar system with their proper movement, we obtain in the mirror an image not superposable on the reality.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Even the motion of solar light is dissymmetrical.
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)
