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bilaterally

bilaterally

8 6.1
In a way that affects both sides of the body or an object
  • adverb
  • /baɪˈlætərəli/
: bilateralmente
  • Patients with no detectable hearing bilaterally or profound loss are cochlear implant candidates.
  • hearing bilaterally
  • bilaterally normal
  • bilaterally symmetrical

Sometimes they have language function distributed bilaterally, Sometimes they have language function in the same side as their handedness.

Examples

  • The audiogram was within the normal range with 100% speech discrimination bilaterally (Figure 4).

    Academic text (1995)

  • Electrodes were positioned either unilaterally or bilaterally, depending on the particular experiment.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Sometimes they have language function distributed bilaterally, Sometimes they have language function in the same side as their handedness.

    MIT OpenCourseWare

  • Good air entry bilaterally.

    The Broken (2008)

  • Air entry equal bilaterally.

    Intersection (1994)

  • The patient was not responding to pain stimuli; pupils were 7 mm bilaterally and briskly responsive to light.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Insects and vertebrates are both bilaterally symmetrical and composed of repeated parts.

    Academic text (1992)

  • No active bleeding emanated from the nasal cavity, but clots were noted bilaterally.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Research suggests that melodic generation activates the supplementary motor area, primary motor cortex, and frontal operculum bilaterally.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The results of the experiment showed improvement bilaterally in both test subjects.

Antonyms

unilaterally
45 7.5

One person or group acts without others' agreement

Compounds

bilaterally symmetrical
  • Specialized
1 7.4

Having two matching halves on each side of a middle line

Surface Forms

bilaterally positive

Morphology

bilaterally = bilateral (transparent) = bi + lateral + al + ly

The transformation from 'bilateral' to 'bilaterally' is a standard adverbial formation.

Etymology

Bilaterally comes from the parts bi- meaning 'two' and lateral meaning 'side', the same bi- you see in bicycle. So when something happens bilaterally it affects both 'sides' of the body at the same time.