BILATERALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bilaterality mean? 

• BILATERALITY (noun)
  The noun BILATERALITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane

  Familiarity information: BILATERALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILATERALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bilateral symmetry; bilateralism; bilaterality

Hypernyms ("bilaterality" is a kind of...):

balance; correspondence; symmetricalness; symmetry ((mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane)

Derivation:

bilateral (having identical parts on each side of an axis)

 Context examples 

Age over forty years at the time of the initial diagnosis, large tumor size, bilaterality, cellular atypia, and increased mitotic activity are factors indicating a potentially aggressive clinical course and relative poor prognosis.

(Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)