BILATERALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bilaterally mean? 

• BILATERALLY (adverb)
  The adverb BILATERALLY has 2 senses:

1. with the involvement of two parties or governments

2. so as to involve two sides or parts

  Familiarity information: BILATERALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILATERALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With the involvement of two parties or governments

Context example:

they worked out an agreement bilaterally

Pertainym:

bilateral (affecting or undertaken by two parties)

Sense 2

Meaning:

So as to involve two sides or parts

Pertainym:

bilateral (having two sides or parts)

 Context examples 

The ovaries are bilaterally involved and enlarged.

(Ovarian Stromal Hyperthecosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Tumor spread in continuity beyond the midline or tumor spread to lymph nodes bilaterally.

(Evans Stage III, NCI Thesaurus)

His face was described as bilaterally asymmetrical, and various other signs of degeneration were described.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It usually affects the axillae bilaterally.

(Fox-Fordyce Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Hearing loss due to disease of the AUDITORY PATHWAYS (in the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM) which originate in the COCHLEAR NUCLEI of the PONS and then ascend bilaterally to the MIDBRAIN, the THALAMUS, and then the AUDITORY CORTEX in the TEMPORAL LOBE.

(Central Hearing Loss, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)