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Dextral

adjective
1.
Of or on the right.  "A dextral flatfish lies with the right eye uppermost"
2.
Preferring to use right foot or hand or eye.



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... the remedies for the sickness which the left had sent. This venerable division is still retained when we speak of a sinister portent, or a right judgment. It is of physiological interest as showing that "dextral pre-eminence" or right-handedness was prevalent in earliest historic times, though it is unknown ...
— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton


Words linked to "Dextral" :   dextrorse, sinistral, dexter, dextrorsal, clockwise, right-handed


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