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1782 W. Dease Observ. Cure Hydrocele 126 He then lateralizes the conductor by the pronation of his wrist.

1827 Medico-chirurg. Rev. 6 278 Lateralizing the knife so as to pass between the termination of the ureter and vesiculæ seminales.

1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. xvi. 201 The quadruped was loaded with packages for a lady boarder, and Hassan was trying to superinduce him to lateralise or dorsalise up to that lady's door.

1889 W. H. A. Jacobson Operations of Surg. xiii. 744 The surgeon takes the handle of the straight staff from his assistant, brings it down, and..lateralizes the staff slightly to the left.

1900 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Oct. 1001/2 The needle is passed through the stomach wall directly backwards, until it meets with a definite resistance, when it is lateralised.

1982 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 53 226/2 The patient was able to protrude, elevate and lateralize the tongue.

2009 J. P. Watkins & R. K. Chandra in F. J. Stucker et al. Rhinol. & Facial Plastic Surg. xiv. 169/1 A cotton swab or nasal speculum can also be used to lateralize the upper lateral cartilage from inside the nose.

1954 Brain 77 533 Milner reports visual-spatial defects consistently more severe in right temporal lobe excisions than left. She suggests that this is a function which is usually lateralized on the right.

1970 M. S. Gazzaniga Bisected Brain vi. 116 The neural organization required for spoken language is usually lateralized to one cerebral hemisphere.

1994 N.Y. Times 20 Dec. c12/3 Dr. Toth's work suggests that for whatever reason, the brains of these tool-makers were already profoundly lateralized.

2007 J. L. Gould & C. G. Gould Animal Architects x. 297 Many of our cognitive tasks, unlike those of other species, have been lateralized into one hemisphere or the other in an apparent effort to save processing space.

1845 A. Tulk tr. R. Wagner Elements Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals 19 The tailed Apes..have a caudal muscle..divided into many bundles, which act as elevators, lateralizers, and depressors of the tail.

1888 Ophthalmic Rev. 7 342 Both the elevators and lateralisers of the eyes act normally.

1901 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901 2 665 In animals which chew the cud the internal pterygoid acts as a powerful lateraliser of the jaw.

2009 Orthopedics 32 211 The patient required revision with a metal 9-mm lateralizer following an atraumatic dislocation [of the shoulder] 4 weeks postoperatively.