bilateral symmetry

symmetry /sym·me·try/ (sim´ĕ-tre) correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane or around an axis.symmet´ricsymmet´rical

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bilateral symmetry  the configuration of an irregularly shaped body (as the human body or that of higher animals) which can be divided by a longitudinal plane into halves that are mirror images of each other.

inverse symmetry  correspondence as between a part and its mirror image, wherein the right (or left) side of one part corresponds with the left (or right) side of the other.

radial symmetry  that in which the body parts are arranged regularly around a central axis.

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bilateral symmetry

n.

Symmetrical arrangement, as of an organism or a body part, along a central axis, so that the body is divided into equivalent right and left halves by only one plane.

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bilateral symmetry

Etymology: L, bis + latus, side; Gk, syn, together, metron, measure

similar structure of the halves of an organism.

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symmetry [sim´ĕ-tre]

correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, or around an axis. adj., adj symmet´rical.

bilateral symmetry the configuration of an irregularly shaped body (such as the human body or that of higher animals) that can be divided by a longitudinal plane into halves that are mirror images of each other.

radial symmetry that in which the body parts are arranged regularly around a central axis.

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symmetry

correspondence in size, form and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, or around an axis. Often used to describe conformation.

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bilateral symmetry

the configuration of an irregularly shaped body (such as the body of a higher animal) that can be divided by a longitudinal plane into halves that are mirror images of each other.

radial symmetry

that in which the body parts are arranged regularly around a central axis.

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bilateral symmetry

adjective Referring to a form divisible into equal mirror halves in one plane only