One who engages in lateral thinking. / One who favors a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction. / One who favors lateralism.

(neurology, pathology) name of a number of chronic, progressive nervous diseases.

(medicine, colloquial) Lateral malleolus.

(ichthyology) One of the scales along the midside that spans from the rear edge of the gill cover to the base of the caudal fin of a fish, usually along a lateral line.

(anatomy) lateral and occipital

plural of lateralist

(anatomy) A muscle of the larynx that arises from the upper margin of the arch of the cricoid cartilage, inserts into the front of the process of the arytenoid cartilage, and helps to narrow the opening of the vocal cords.

(anatomy) A muscle that arises from the greater wing of the sphenoid bone and from the outer surface of the lateral pterygoid plate, is inserted into the condyle of the mandible and the articular disk of the temporomandibular joint, and acts as an antagonist of the masseter, temporalis, and medial pterygoid muscles.

plural of lateral flow test

Any of various simple tests for the presence of a substance in a body fluid