Designating that side of the human body which contains the hand which is favoured in use over the other (left) hand by the majority of humans, or…

Designating that side of the human body which is to the west when a person is facing north, and which contains the hand which is less likely to be…

Usually opposed to upper. Designating part of a structure of the body of an animal, or a part of a plant, that is closer to the ground, or further…

That is before another in position, order, or rank; esp. of an animal's limbs or a part of the body: Front. Obsolete. (Cf. farther, adj. 1.)

Anatomy and Zoology. Located on the side of the body or a part of the body; located to the side of (another structure); located beside or further…

Designating the left side of the body, or the parts of the body situated on this side; = left, adj.1 1b. Now rare and archaic in general use.

spec. in Anatomy, etc. (Cf. superior, adj. 2.)

Opposed to posterior. Anatomy and Zoology. Located in the front part of the body or an organ; occupying such a position relative to another…

Anatomy and Zoology. Applied to parts or organs situated below others of the same kind (distinguished as superior), or below the usual or normal…

Anatomy and Zoology. That is the upper or uppermost (of two or more parts of the body); located at or near the highest point (of the body, part…

Anatomy. Neither parallel nor perpendicular to the main axis of the body or a body part; spec. designating various muscles, of the eye, abdomen…

Medicine. Situated in the upper part of the body, section of the body, limb, or organ; spec. = proximal, adj. 2a. Also: occurring in, involving, or…

spec. in Physiology and Botany = ascending, adj. 3.

Chiefly Zoology. Of, relating to, or designating the underside of the body; ventral. Also: of or relating to the underside of a part. Obsolete.

= peripheral, adj.

Anatomy. Located further from the surface of the body than a corresponding structure; located on the inner surface of a part of the body, esp. a…

Of a part of the body: situated or held so as to be upward; upper; superior. Now rare.

= peripheral, adj.

Left. Also in combinations, as gawk-handed.

Directed upwards: applied spec. in Physiology to structures that pass, or serve as a passage, from a… To a procumbent stem which gradually curves…

Physiology and Botany. = afferent, adj. Obsolete.

Anatomy and Zoology. Located or occurring under the chin.

Of, relating to, or causing adduction of a part of the body (see adduction, n.1 2). Cf. adducent, adj. 1, adductor, n.

Chiefly Zoology. Somewhat or almost dorsal; situated near the back.

Forming a series of similar parts pointing in the same direction, as ribs or vertebræ. So. (In recent Dicts.) syntrope n./ˈsɪntrəʊp/ any one of…

Of or belonging to the atlas; also used by some for: Of or belonging to the upper part of the body.

= mediad, adv. Also with of.

Designating, situated in, or directed towards the median plane or midline; medial, median. Also with to. Also (Dentistry): located or directed…

Frequently opposed to distal, adj. a. Anatomy and Zoology. Originally: designating a part of a limb that is nearest or nearer to the trunk. Later…

Situated on the same side as the sternum; anterior (in man) or inferior (in other animals); ventral; hæmal. (Opposed to dorsal, tergal, or neural.)

Anatomy. Situated away from the centre of the body, or from the point of origin (said of the extremity or distant part of a limb or organ); terminal…

Anatomy. Designating parts of the body, or of an organ or other structure, that are located towards its periphery (away from its centre); of or…

= peripheral, adj.

directed towards the belly or stomach.

Anatomy and Zoology. = submedian, adj.

In the furthest forward position; nearest to the anterior, or to the head.

Located under or beneath (ventral to) a vertebra or the vertebral column.

Of a blood or lymphatic vessel: carrying blood or lymph towards an organ, structure, or part of the body; (of a nerve) carrying impulses towards…

Situated on the left side; of or relating to the left side or hand; left. rare before 19th cent.

Anatomy and Zoology. Designating the end or aspect of the body that contains the nose and mouth; located at or nearer to this end or aspect…

Situated between or connecting ganglia, as the nerves of the sympathetic system.

Near the midline or median plane of a body, organ, or limb; almost median.

Median, mesial.

Of or belonging to the blood or blood-vascular system; belonging to or situated on or towards that side or region of the body which contains the…

Located or performed above a vagina or sheath-like structure, esp. that of the female reproductive tract.

Zoology and Anatomy. Originally: occupying the side of a vertebral body on which the spinal cord lies (chiefly in neural arch and neural spine…

(a) Anatomy and Zoology. Having similar or corresponding parts or organs on opposite sides of a dividing plane, or regularly arranged around an axis…

situated above the acoustic meatus.

Anatomy and Zoology. Lying alongside, or on each side of, the axis of a body.

In technical contexts: turned towards the back or the rear side; directed towards the posterior. Also simply: = posterior, adj. 2a.

Lying beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral axis.

Located posterior to an axis, esp. the main axis of the body or of a body part; spec. designating, relating to, or derived from the lower (caudal)…

Located anterior to an axis, esp. the main axis of the body or of a body part; spec. designating, relating to, or derived from the upper (cranial)…

Passing or situated across the median line of the body; applied to certain muscles in brachiopods. Also as a transmedian muscle.

To or towards the median line or plane of the body. Also with of. Cf. mesiad, adv.

Zoology and Anatomy. Applied to parts, organs, or markings parallel to a plane supposed to extend from end to end and from side to side of the body.

= medial, adj. 2b. Cf. mesial, adj.

= prosomal, adj.1

To or toward the right side of the body; dextrally.

Situated or occurring beside the median line (of the body or part of the body).

Anterior; forward.

of sections or lines of direction: extending from venter to back.

Designating, relating to, or situated in the median plane (plane of bilateral symmetry).

of or pertaining to the ventral and axial portions of the human trunk.

situated on, pertaining to, the under and hinder part of an organ, etc.

Belonging to or occurring on the same side of the body; connecting two parts on the same side.

Taken parallel to the sagittal plane; located near the sagittal plane.

both ventral and medial; situated towards the median line and the ventral or anterior surface.

on or affecting the same side of the body.

located or occurring above the sella turcica.

Situated above or in the upper part of the temporal region (of the head), the temporal bone (of the skull), or the temporal lobe (of the brain). Cf…