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controlaterally

controlaterally is the alternative form of contralaterally.

Meaning of contralaterally

Adverb

contralaterally (not comparable)

  1. On the opposite side of the body.
    • For some indications in PET imaging, it is necessary for radiopharmaceutical injections to be administered contralaterally or pedally to the disease process2010, Paul Shreve, David W. Townsend, Clinical PET-CT in Radiology: Integrated Imaging in Oncology, →ISBN, page 78

Origin of controlaterally

From controlateral + -ly.

Questions about controlaterally

What is controlaterally the alternative form of?
Controlaterally is the alternative form of contralaterally.

Words near controlaterally in the dictionary

  1. control wheels
  2. control-F
  3. control-flow graph
  4. control-flow graphs
  5. controlateral
  6. controlaterally
  7. controle
  8. controled
  9. controlee
  10. controlees
  11. controler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: controlaterally (page history and authors); contralaterally (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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