{"id":217,"date":"2014-08-16T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docneuro.jz7sunfr-liquidwebsites.com\/contralateral-definition\/"},"modified":"2014-08-16T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:41:04","slug":"contralateral-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docneuro.com\/contralateral-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Contralateral definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contralateral:<\/strong>\u00a0adjective;\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">on the opposite side of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Used in descriptions of how two<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">anatomical or pathological<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">\u00a0structures are related.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Examples:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">1. &#8220;a lesion of the motor cortex produces\u00a0<em>contralateral<\/em>\u00a0weakness&#8221; means that an injury to the part of the cerebral cortex that controls movement produces weakness in the muscles of the body on the opposite side of the injury (eg. injury in the left motor cortex would cause weakness in the right arm and leg).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">2. &#8220;the spinothalamic tract carries <em>contralateral<\/em> pain and temperature fibers&#8221; means that the nerve fibers traveling in the part of the spinal cord known as the spinothalamic tract carries sensory information from the opposite side of the body; so the tract on the right carries pain and temperature information from the left side of the body while the tract on the left carries information from the right side of the body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">See for comparison:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.docneuro.com\/ipsilateral-definition.html\" title=\"ipsilateral\">ipsilateral<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contralateral:\u00a0adjective;\u00a0on the opposite side of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[514,516,515],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Contralateral definition - DocNeuro<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition of the medical term contralateral, with examples in use.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/docneuro.com\/contralateral-definition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Contralateral definition - DocNeuro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Definition of the medical term contralateral, with examples in use.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/docneuro.com\/contralateral-definition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"DocNeuro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DocNeuro\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-08-16T17:41:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Naoum P. 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