adjective
definition
Of or pertaining to the right side
Examples of dextral in a Sentence
Ampullaria, shell dextral, coiled.
In dextral Gastropods the only structure found on the topographically right side of the rectum is the genital duct.
In a dextral Gastropod the shell is coiled in a right-handed spiral from apex to mouth, and the spiral also projects to the right of the median plane of the animal.
Triforis, Physa, Clausilia are examples of sinistral Gastropods, but reversal also occurs as an individual variation among forms normally dextral.
Shell bulimoid, dextral or sinistral; radular teeth, expanded at their extremities and multicuspidate.
This, however, is not generally retained in one plane, and the spire projects, little by little, on the side which was originally left, but finally becomes right (in dextral forms, with a clockwise direction, if viewed from the side of the spire; but counter-clockwise in sinistral forms).
Beneath the ciliated groove is placed an elongated ganglion (olfactory ganglion) connected by a nerve to the supraintestinal (therefore the primitively dextral) ganglion of the long h, k, m, Stomach.