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Example sentences for "dextral"

Lexicographically close words:
dexterities; dexterity; dexterous; dexterously; dextra; dextram; dextrin; dextrine; dextro; dextrose
  1. 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.

  2. Or it might be somehow due to what Morgan and his colleagues have called crossing over in the segregation of heterozygous chromosomes, so that a part corresponding to a sinistral body is united with a part corresponding to a dextral head.

  3. As for any tunicles or skins which should hinder the Liver from enabling dextral parts; we must not conceive it diffuseth its vertue by meer irradiation, but by its veins and proper vessels, which common skins and teguments cannot impede.

  4. If, at this moment, the animal were placed with mouth and ventral surface turned towards the observer, this torsion carries the circumanal complex in a clockwise direction (along the right side in dextral forms) through 180 deg.

  5. Shell bulimoid, dextral or sinistral; radular teeth, expanded at their extremities and multicuspidate.

  6. In a dextral Gastropod the shell is coiled in a right-handed spiral from apex to mouth, and the spiral also projects to the right of the median plane of the animal.

  7. In dextral Gastropods the only structure found on the topographically right side of the rectum is the genital duct.

  8. This, with many similar beads, made of both dextral and sinistral shells, was associated with human remains in the great mound at Sevierville, Tenn.

  9. From the latter remark I should infer that some were made from dextral and others from sinistral shells; the two described are made from the Busycon perversum.

  10. It has been made from the broad beak of a Strombus or dextral whorled Busycon.

  11. 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.

  12. But doubtless instances go to show that among Asiatic and European peoples the general belief or feeling is that the dextral circuit--i.

  13. The circuit used by the decorator of this box is dextral or sunwise.

  14. The four dragon-flies on the rim of this object are placed in such a way as to represent insects flying about the box in a dextral circuit, or with the heads turned to the right.

  15. Thus the starry flounder (Platichthys) belongs to the dextral group.

  16. In all these species, however, whether dextral or sinistral, the relation of the nerves conforms to the type and is not influenced by the individual deviation.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dextral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clockwise; conservative; dextral; off; reactionary; right; starboard