dextrality
(dɛkˈstrælɪtɪ)
[f. prec. + -ity.]
1. The condition of having the right side differing from the left.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. v. 187 If there were a determinate prepotency in the right..wee might expect the same in other animals, whose parts are also differenced by dextrality. Ibid. 191 This doth but peti[ti]onarily inferre a dextrality in the heavens. |
2. The use by preference of the right hand, and the limbs of the right side generally; right-handedness.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. v. 187 Did not institution, but Nature determine dextrality, there would be many more Scevolaes then are delivered in story. 1881 Le Conte Monoc. Vision 94 There is no doubt that dextrality affects the whole side of the body. |