ipsilateral

1. 1.

   on or relating to the same side (of the body)

   Antonymscontralateral

Questions about ipsilateral

What does ipsilateral mean?

ipsilateral means "on or relating to the same side (of the body)".

How many syllables are in ipsilateral?

ipsilateral has 5 syllables and divides as ip-si-la-te-ral under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of ipsilateral?

The recorded antonyms are contralateral.

Is ipsilateral a common word?

ipsilateral is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.