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to lateralize

to lateralize

8.8
To move something to one side, left or right
  • verb
  • /ˈlætəraɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : lateralizar
  • He demonstrated how the sound lateralized to one side, allowing the audience to understand the spatial effects in audio perception.
  • lateralized brain

The single emotion that lateralises most strongly is anger.

Examples

  • The Weber test lateralized to the left.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Findings on physical examination were significant only for a Weber test that lateralized to the right ear at 512 Hz.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The pillar is then advanced and fixated into its new lateralized position with multiple sutures of 3-0 polyglycolic acid.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Fernando Nottebohm showed that song production in birds is strongly lateralized (Hinde 1982).

    Academic text (1995)
  • Previous studies on the effects of lateralized cerebral damage have shown that right hemisphere lesions are associated with greater sensorimotor deficits than left hemisphere lesions (27).

    Academic text (1995)
  • The deficiencies exhibited by Group A children on tactile-perceptual and psychomotor tasks are in evidence bilaterally; when there is evidence of lateralized impairment on such tasks for the Group A child, it is almost always a relative deficiency in performance on the left side of the body.

    Academic text (1992)
  • In neurological studies, researchers often find that language processing is lateralized primarily in the left hemisphere.

  • The doctor explained that the patient's symptoms lateralized after the injury, indicating a shift in neurological function.

Synonyms

to reposition
vsto lateralize
23 3.9

To move something to another place

moves something to one side specifically, not merely to a new position
to move it over
vsto lateralize
6 1.8

Push something a little to one side

moves something specifically to one side rather than anywhere else

Antonyms

10 5.6

To move work and control into one place or under one leader

How Lateral

to displace
140 5.5
to lateralize
  • Specialized
8.8
to nudge
33 3.8

Surface Forms

lateralize infinitive
lateralized past participle
lateralizing present participle
lateralizes third person singular

Morphology

lateralize = lateral (transparent) = lateral + ize

The verb is formed productively from the adjective 'lateral' with the suffix '-ize' meaning 'make or become', so the meaning is predictable.

Etymology

The word lateralize comes from the Latin root latus, meaning 'side', and the verb ending -ize, meaning 'to make'. So to lateralize something is to move it toward one side or make it more to one side.