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Definition of Lateral

1. Adjective. Situated at or extending to the side. "Shot out sidelong boughs"

2. Noun. A pass to a receiver upfield from the passer.

3. Adjective. Lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body. "Lateral lemniscus"

Definition of Lateral

1. a. Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

Definition of Lateral

1. Adjective. To the side; of or pertaining to the side. ¹

2. Adjective. (anatomy) Pertaining to the left or right of the body; further from the midline. ¹

3. Adjective. (botany) Pertaining to the girth of an organ, rather than its thickness or length. ¹

4. Adjective. (linguistics) Pertaining to sounds that are generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for the air passage. ¹

5. Noun. an object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else ¹

6. Noun. (linguistics) a sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in ''lateral'') ¹

7. Noun. (American football) a lateral pass ¹

8. Verb. To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction ¹

9. Verb. (American football) To execute a lateral pass ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lateral

1. to execute a type of pass in football [v -ALED, -ALING, -ALS or -ALLED, -ALLING, -ALS]

Medical Definition of Lateral

1. 1. Denoting a position farther from the median plane or midline of the body or of a structure. 2. Pertaining to a side. Origin: L. Lateralis This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lateral

latent reflex latent schizophrenia latent stage latent syphilis latent tetany latent typhoid latent virus latent zone latently latents

later later(a) later on latera laterad lateral X-ray lateral aberrant thyroid carcinoma lateral aberration lateral alveolar abscess lateral ampullar nerve

lateral angle of eye lateral angle of scapula lateral angle of uterus lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve lateral anterior thoracic nerve lateral aperture of the fourth ventricle lateral arcuate ligament lateral area lateral areas

Literary usage of Lateral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The inferior cerebellar veins, of large size, terminate in the lateral, superior petrosal, ... Occipital Sinus. Straight Sinus. lateral Sinuses. ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"BRIEFER ARTICLES CHARACTERS OF PINUS: THE lateral CONE (WITH TWO FIGURES) ... it sometimes produces double nodes and lateral cones and pseudo-lateral young ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"Extension with weight and tirm lateral support, with bran-hags and long lateral ... THK clinical picture which is called up by the name amyotrophic lateral ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"In an essay now in press on "The lateral Line Organs in Extinct Amphibia" the writer has called especial attention to the character of the lateral line ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"At the level of the first sacral segment three lateral anterior-horn groups ... The postero-lateral group grows smaller, moves forward and becomes' dc facto ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"28 there is no hade, for the fault is vertical ; consequently there is no lateral displacement. In fig. 29, however, where the fault hades 2. ..."

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