Monodextrous
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not ambidextrous; being either left-handed or right-handed.
"I have seen many ambidextrous men and I have never seen one whose two hands were equally good. The patient has certainly claim to the operator’s best hand. In ophthalmic surgery no inconvenience arises from being merely monodextrous."
- 2 One-handed.
"The 4D on-line motion planning algorithm described here is an augmententation of the 3D motion planning algorithm developed for monodextrous industrial robots[…]"
Example
More examples"I have seen many ambidextrous men and I have never seen one whose two hands were equally good. The patient has certainly claim to the operator’s best hand. In ophthalmic surgery no inconvenience arises from being merely monodextrous."
Etymology
From mono- + Latin dexter (“right", "skillful”) + -ous.
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