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Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Lateral flattening of the tibia.

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.

One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect.

The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.

A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally. Quain. Dunglison.

Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.

The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

- (posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side.

The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.

A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.

Same as Isometric. Regular polygon (Geom.), a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular. -- Regular polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedr…

An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.

One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.

A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chætognatha.