contralateral
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of contralateral
First recorded in 1880–85; contra- 1 ( def. ) + lateral
Example Sentences
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Yes, he told me, “we have started to adapt these strategies in counseling women with breast cancer regarding contralateral prophylactic mastectomy.”
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2018
The mouse sensory barrel cortex was activated by stimulation of the contralateral ramus infraorbitalis of the trigeminal nerve using a set of custom-made bipolar electrodes inserted percutaneously.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
These coordinating axons in the anterior corticospinal tract are often considered bilateral, as they are both ipsilateral and contralateral.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Those fibers are axons that project from the gray matter of the pons into the contralateral cerebellar cortex.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Another similarity is that the second neurons in both of these pathways are contralateral, because they project across the midline to the other side of the brain or spinal cord.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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