right-handedness
Most people's handedness
Right-handedness is the tendency to use the right hand for most tasks requiring manual dexterity—writing, throwing, using tools.
About ninety percent of humans are right-handed, making it the overwhelming norm.
The condition appears early in childhood and remains stable throughout life.
Her right-handedness made left-handed scissors awkward to use.
Dual-hand equal facility
- lateralityDominant side tendency
- dexteritySkillful hand coordination
- motor controlRegulation of bodily movement
- fine motor skillsSmall muscle control ability
throwing arm · grip strength · manual dexterity · coordination
Functional division between hemispheres
- left hemisphereBrain's logical half
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- neural pathwaysBrain's communication routes
Mirror-image non-superimposability
- spinRapid rotation around axis
- polarizationSeparation into opposing extremes
- rotationTurning on an axis
- clockwiseRightward circular motion
Of the right hand
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- majorityOver half of total
- normAccepted behavioral standard
scissors · desks · tools · ergonomics · accommodation · writing systems
ambidexterity
Dual-hand equal facility
- lateralityDominant side tendency
- dexteritySkillful hand coordination
- motor controlRegulation of bodily movement
fine motor skills · throwing arm · grip strength · manual dexterity · coordination
brain lateralization
Functional division between hemispheres
- left hemisphereBrain's logical half
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
chirality
Mirror-image non-superimposability
- spinRapid rotation around axis
- polarizationSeparation into opposing extremes
- rotationTurning on an axis
dextral
Of the right hand
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- majorityOver half of total
norm · scissors · desks · tools · ergonomics · accommodation · writing systems
- Genetic Traitshair color, dark hair, skin color, dimples, blood type
- left and right symbolismdexter, sinister, sinistral, heraldry, laterality
- brain lateralitylaterality, brain lateralization, brain hemispheres, ambidexterity, cross-dominance
right-handednessleft-handedness
Favoring one's port side
southpaw · sinistral · lefty · ambidexterity · ambidextrousness
right, hand, right-hand, handedness, righthand, right-handed, right hand