contralateral
C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Relating to or affecting the opposite side of the body.
A lesion of the right motor cortex produces weakness of the contralateral, left-sided limbs.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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