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A meeting between two people or groups.
adjective
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Having two sides.
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Involving both sides equally.
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(of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
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Having bilateral symmetry.
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Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family.
Examples of bilateral in a Sentence
There are also bilateral links with several other national programs.
He was found to be suffering from bilateral diffuse pleural thickening.
Children with hereditary forms usually have multifocal, bilateral retinoblastoma, whereas children with the somatic form have unilateral, unifocal disease.
The swan-mussel has superficially a perfectly developed bilateral symmetry.
Administrations can continue to create these bilateral agreements with each other.
Options after a positive test bilateral mastectomy, but if this option is chosen then logically removal the ovaries should also be considered?
This is the third case reported of a patient with persistent mullerian duct syndrome and bilateral seminoma.
To seek to accomplish this, we have formed a bilateral steering committee and developed an infrastructure protection framework.
We have, for example, a bilateral peace treaty between equals, signed with Russia on 12 May 1997.
Thus, about 1875, the distinction of Echinoderms from such radiate animals as jelly-fish and corals (see Coelentera), by their possession of a body-cavity ("coelom") distinct from the gut, was fully realized; while their severance from the worms (especially Gephyrea), with which some Echinoderms were long confused, had been necessitated by the recognition in all of a radial symmetry, impressed on the original bilateral symmetry of the larva through the growth of a special division of the coelom, known as the "hydrocoel," and giving rise to a set of water-bearing canals - the watervascular or ambulacral system.
For example, a patient with bilateral retinoblastoma has this retinal tumor in both eyes.
He has bilateral optic nerve atrophy, which affects the visual information passing from the eye to the brain.
The findings showed impaired recognition of fear following bilateral temporal lobe damage when this included the amygdala.
Selective bilateral damage to the human amygdala is rare, offering unique insights into its functions.
A final grievance mentioned by NGOs is that the government is very averse to bilateral and multilateral donors channeling resources straight to NGOs.
Symptoms Symptoms are often intermittent and are usually bilateral.
Some causes are mainly unilateral whereas others like vitamin A deficiency are often bilateral.
These have brought together bilateral trading on a telephone market into a unified trading platform.
Organization Erith School is the only bilateral school in Bexley.
An asymmetric onset is usual, although the features usually become bilateral.
I'm a home health nurse treating a patient who had cellulitis with ulcerations to bilateral lower extremities.
Generalized epileptic seizures involve both cerebral hemispheres from the onset of the seizure, and consequently any motor manifestations are bilateral.
An Action Medical Research team has been looking at ways of reducing the incidence of hip dislocation in children with bilateral cerebral palsy.
Each Whitehall department is encouraged to agree a bilateral concordat with each of the Devolved Administrations.
Six fields were identified as priority areas for bilateral cooperation.
Bilateral discussions have taken place between him and faculty deans, who have been informed of the proposed capped salary figures for their faculty.
How do you manage someone with painful bilateral hips with 30 degrees fixed flexion deformity.
France, Germany, the US and Japan account for almost three quarters of all TC given by bilateral donors.
This was usually at the initiative of bilateral and multilateral donors who followed their own procedures.
The United States and Ukraine are committed to working together to complete our bilateral negotiations for Ukraine's accession to the WTO in 2005.
An oophorectomy carried out in the absence of ovarian cancer is known as a risk-reducing bilateral oophorectomy or prophylactic bilateral oophorectomy.
Ultrasound demonstrated bilateral occlusion with a sensitivity of 100 %, and showed tubal patency with a specificity of 96% .
Bilateral stenting is associated with a better long-term patency.
Patients who did not respond to the randomized phase of ECT were treated in an open, crossover phase using moderate dose bilateral ECT.
Signs include eyelid retraction, conjunctival redness and swelling, proptosis (either unilateral or bilateral ), periorbital edema, and ophthalmoplegia.
All patients underwent salvage radical prostatectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy following irradiation failure.
Non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty so desiring may also obtain such benefits pursuant to bilateral agreements.
That would be aimed to normalize the bilateral relations.
Instead, people like Lamont are trying to sour the bilateral relations between two historical allies.
Mixed sleep apnea is a combination of the two.Treatment for sleep apnea includes the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and Bi-PAP (bilateral positive airway pressure) machines, CPAP masks, and in some cases, surgery.
These include severe generalized joint hypermobility and bilateral hip dislocation present at birth.
There are four general types of injury, and an individual brachial plexopathy may include any or all of these injury types, on one or both (bilateral) sides of the body.
An individual brachial plexopathy may include any or all of these injury types, on one or both (bilateral) sides of the body.
Breech deliveries increase the risk of brachial plexopathy by 175-fold, often causing bilateral injuries to the lower nerve roots of the brachial plexus.
When retinoblastoma occurs independently in both eyes, it is then called bilateral retinoblastoma.
Individuals with multiple independent tumors, bilateral retinoblastoma, or trilateral retinoblastoma are more likely to be affected with the inherited form of retinoblastoma.
People with an inherited form of retinoblastoma are more likely to have a tumor in both eyes (bilateral) and are more likely to have more than one independent tumor (multifocal) in one or both eyes.
If a patient with unilateral or bilateral retinoblastoma has a relative or relatives with retinoblastoma, it can be assumed that they have an inherited form of retinoblastoma.
Even when there is no family history, most cases of bilateral and trilateral retinoblastoma are inherited, as are most cases of unilateral, multifocal retinoblastoma.
It is also important to establish whether the cancer is unilateral (one eye) or bilateral (both eyes), multifocal or unifocal.