right-sidedadj.

1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 95^v Gemneus, Dexter: Ryght sided. Handsoom.

1829 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 119 35 In a right-sided series it is the great circle by which the tube must be first pointed to the direct object.

1837 Family Mag. 112/1 The far more general tendency to raise the right shoulder, which is produced by the more frequent and longer-continued acts of writing, drawing, &c., and by the perpetual employment of the right hand in all the acts of common life, which compel the greater or less liberation of the shoulder from the corset or stays, its increased development, and the almost universal tendency to right-sided deviation and deformity.

1860 J. F. Campbell Pop. Tales W. Highlands II. xxxvii. 190 He procured a brown right-sided maned horse.

1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 270 The urogenital orifice of the female is covered by an enlarged scale, unattached on one side or the other, so as to open either to the right or left. In consequence of this a dextral (right-sided) male can pair only with a sinistral (left-sided) female, and vice versa.

1991 B. Leigh Catch of Hands 139 She coughed and asked what I had done with the right-sided Staffordshire [sc. china] dog I took last time—one of a pair, she said.

2000 Radiographics 20 639 A left IVC [= inferior vena cava] typically ends at the left renal vein, which crosses anterior to the aorta to form a normal right-sided prerenal IVC.

1850 Buchanan's Jrnl. Man 1 522 We are generally right-sided, right-handed, right-footed; a few are decidedly left-handed.

1884 J. le Conte in Nature 13 Mar. 452/2 In my own case the whole body is right-sided, as far as dexterity is concerned.

1930 Science 24 Oct. 437/1 When a person is right-handed he is also, in a less marked degree, right-footed, right-eyed and right-eared. In other words, he is right-sided.

1974 Black Belt Feb. 25/1 I was lucky in the last nationals because most of the players I met were right-sided and they fit my style.

2006 D. Ward Stuttering & Cluttering iii. 52 Most right-handed and right-sided adults who do not stutter will more accurately report musical stimuli when it is presented to the left ear.

1855 Med. Times & Gaz. 13 Jan. 26/2 It did not quite so obviously explain the (to a certain extent) right-sided character of the dropsy, for the tumour did not appear to have pressed more upon the right than upon the left brachio-cephalic vein.

1881 Obstetr. Soc. Trans. 22 103 The great majority of the tumours twisted were right-sided tumours.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxiv. 681 There is also the unexplained condition of Meig's syndrome, in which benign fibroma of the ovary is associated with ascites and a right-sided hydrothorax.

1996 S. Lavery et al. Hamlyn Encycl. Complementary Health 167/1 Heart failure sometimes affects just one side of the heart, in which case it is known as left-sided or right-sided failure.

2012 Pract. Radiation Oncol. 2 202/2 To minimize selection bias, patients were consecutively selected to obtain 11 patients who were treated for right-sided breast cancer and 11 patients for left-sided breast cancer.

1837 H. Mayo Philos. Living ii. 126 The general influence of the rightsidedness of our habits upon curvature of the back.

1891 D. Wilson Right Hand 169 Dr. Brown-Sequard affirms that right-sidedness affects the arms much more than the legs.

1927 Biometrika 19 169 Professor van Biervliet, as a physiologist, thinks there is no physiological reason for right-sidedness, but that there must be an anatomical reason yet to be determined.

2004 M. A. Hook in L. J. Rogers & G. Kaplan Compar. Vertebr. Cognition x. 343 Hunt also found that New Caledonian crows..display right sidedness for making tools.