Meaning of sinistromanual | Babel Free

Definitions

Left-handed.

not-comparable

Examples

“[T]he artist, probably for the sake of symmetry, makes one right-handed and the other left-handed. The alternative, of course, is that the latter actually was a sinistromanual player of note⟳ [of the game of t'ou hu or pitch-pot] and was thus intentionally represented. In any event, we have⟳ in this relief a very early Chinese illustration of this phenomenon.”

“In a world where most major medical maladies are readily treated, numerous minor medical conditions which today escape⟳ our notice⟳ will rise⟳ up from obscurity and present⟳ themselves annoyingly to our conscious minds, demanding attention. These conditions may be of several kinds. […] Third is minor physical or functional flaws, such as […] handedness (currently ~90% dextromanual, ~10% sinistromanual), […]”

“"Precisely. Whoever killed this young girl was sinistromanual, an unusual state in this day." / "My murderer was left-handed? That is most unusual, I agree⟳. How do you come⟳ to that finding?"”

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