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Definition of dextral :
Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.
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- In a sinistral Flat- fish, whether it is normally sinistral like the Turbot or abnormally like a 'reversed' Flounder, the viscera are in the same position as in a dextral specimen: the liver is on the left side, the coils of the intestine on the right. - "Hormones and Heredity", J. T. Cunningham.
- Thus in a reversed or sinistral Flounder, which is normally dextral, the left side which is uppermost is still the left side, but it has colour and two eyes, whereas in the normal specimen the right side has these characters and not the left. - "Hormones and Heredity", J. T. Cunningham.
- Or it might be somehow due to what Morgan and his colleagues have called crossing over in the segregation of heterozygous chromosomes, so that a part corresponding to a sinistral body is united with a part corresponding to a dextral head. - "Hormones and Heredity", J. T. Cunningham.
