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bilaterally

bilaterally

8 6.1
In a way that affects both sides of the body or an object
  • adverb
  • /baɪˈlætərəli/
translation icon : 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.

  • Good air entry bilaterally.

  • Air entry equal bilaterally.

  • 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

50 7.5

One person or group acts without others' agreement

Compounds

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.