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dextrorse

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9 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted deeorrstxStarts with DEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. spiraling upward from left to right

Word origin

From Latin dextrorsum, contracted from dextrovorsum, dextroversum (“toward the right side”), from dexter (“right”) + versus, vorsus, past participle of vertere, vortere (“to turn”).

Used in a sentence

  • They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart.
  • Here it is important to note whether theoverlapping is from right to left, Dextrorse (Fig. 125), or the reverse, Sinsitrorse (Fig. 124).
  • At completion the suture line follows a dextrorse spiral in the capsule wall of nearly one revolution from base to tipe (Fig. 10).

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