lateral

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body

   Lateral lemniscus.

2. 2
   adj

   situated at or extending to the side

   The lateral branches of a tree.

3. 3
   adj

   To the side; of or pertaining to the side.

   The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.

4. 4
   noun

   A lateral canal, a canal built alongside an existing stream.

   […] Canal and laterals, section 4, and the first part of section 5; and Miller Canal and laterals.

Borrowed from Latin laterālis (“belonging to the side”), from latus (“the side or flank”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

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