(physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body
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Lateralisation
localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain
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(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is s…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is s…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another; "the biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc; "the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.(physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical physiology.
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Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localization, function, right, left, sides.
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