Meaning bilateral symmetry
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bilateral symmetry


[L. bi, twice, two + lateris, side; Gk. summetros, symmetry] Characterizing a body form with a central longitudinal plane that divides the body into two equal but opposite halves.
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bilateral symmetry


The quality of being the same on both of two sides.
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bilateral symmetry


body divisibility into mirror-image halves (right and left arms and legs, for example). Animals with bilateral symmetry display dorsal (top), ventral (bottom), anterior (front), and posterior (rear) orientations, whereas radial animals like starfish have only the dorsal and ventral. (Arms, legs, and wings evolved from the fins of lungfish swimming [..]
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bilateral symmetry


n. in anatomy, refers to a symmetrical arrangement of body parts such that either half (left or right) is an approximate mirror image of the other. This equal distribution of parts is along a central [..]
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bilateral symmetry


Symmetry around a central axis.
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bilateral symmetry


The condition, found in many organisms, where one half of the body or structure is the mirror image of the other.
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bilateral symmetry


The condition, found in many organisms, where one half of the body or structure is the mirror image of the other.
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bilateral symmetry


having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior end [..]
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bilateral symmetry


a condition in which two equal halves of a body mirror each other
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bilateral symmetry


the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane (biology) the characteristic, in animals, of being symmetric about a plane running from head to tail
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