sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Even as a sinistral I found this quite a struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Cryptic crossword No 25,212] Reference
The remaining 10% of people are left-handed sinistral. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
About a year ago, I had a post about a sinistral snail in M. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
The effectiveness and consequentiality of said lying was even more lopsidedly sinistral. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Fairness Doctrine History:] Reference
A sinistral snail, on the other hand, would have its genital opening on the left side of its head. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
As its name implies and the above picture shows, B. sinistrum is a left-handed or sinistral species. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
I am very happy to know about theat paper by Vinarski on the sinistral population of Lymnaea stagnalis. From Wordnik.com. [Where is my peer review hat?] Reference
Some forams make shells which are characteristically sinistral, and the chirality has a phylogenetic basis. From Wordnik.com. [A shell of a different kind] Reference
I have also mentioned species with shells that are normally sinistral, including the freshwater snail genus Physa and the land snail Chondrus tournefortianus of Turkey. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
I'm just beating all those sinistral crazies to the punch, surely they're crafting in their minds the proper outraged tone to convey in their angry comments here and elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Who are you calling unserious?!] Reference
Its opposite in the field of conchology is sinistral. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
P. vulgata (dextral) 15 and B. glabrata (sinistral) 28. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
Shell minute, vitreous, sinistral, apex sunken as in Planorhis. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Control animals (e) display the normal sinistral shell morphology. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
I'm sure somebody intends on the consequences - but I'm sinistral that way. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
The Mokis also are careful to stir medicines according to the sinistral circuit. From Wordnik.com. [Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk] Reference
The word was laeotropous which means turning to the left, sinistral, of all things. From Wordnik.com. [WFAA.com Latest News] Reference
B. glabrata possesses a sinistral shell and sinistral cleavage and internal organ organization. e. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
In a sinistral Flat-fish, whether it is normally sinistral like the Turbot or abnormally like a 'reversed'. From Wordnik.com. [Hormones and Heredity] Reference
In sinistral species, the third cleavage is in a counterclockwise direction, but is clockwise in dextral species. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
The pond snail nearly always has a right handed (dextral) to its shell but sometimes it is left handed (sinistral). From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
Because of our work, we are despised and hated by sinistral militants - although as Christians we do not hate them back!. From Wordnik.com. [Pam's House Blend - Front Page] Reference
Moslems the great man sits in the sinistral corner of the Divan as seen from the door, so the place of honour is to his left. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Neurologic and ophthalmologic examinations indicated sinistral optic neuropathy with visual acuity reduced nearly to amaurosis. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Few Americans understand the depth of Obama's commitment to the sinistral agenda, for Obama himself counts himself as "left-handed". From Wordnik.com. [Pam's House Blend - Front Page] Reference
On the outer surface this bowl has a row of tadpoles encircling it in a sinistral direction, or with the center of the bowl on the left. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
Americans For Truth is known and respected by leading dexterity advocates worldwide for our fearless truth-telling on the sinistral issue. From Wordnik.com. [Pam's House Blend - Front Page] Reference
(Fig. 159.) Shell subulate, sinistral, thick, costate, sutures small; whirls, ten, flat; ribs three, moniliform; columella smooth; canal short and deep. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
This sequence is prescribed in Tusayan ceremonials, and has elsewhere been designated by me as the sinistral circuit, or a circuit with the center on the left hand. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
On this last hypothesis the mutation here considered might be a heterozygous specimen, with the dextral condition dominant in the head and the sinistral in the body. From Wordnik.com. [Hormones and Heredity] Reference
Occasionally the dextral circuit is followed in cases in which it is evidently less convenient than the sinistral would be, as in dealing cards in all ordinary games. From Wordnik.com. [Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk] Reference
This genus from its distinctly sinistral character is evidently allied to lAmacinay from which its planorbiform mode of growth distinctly separates it.p. i m i t a n 8. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
The last three Tests were drawn on pitches flatter than cowpats, but the message was clear: this was going to be a side playing in the image of their sensible, sinistral leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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