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bilateral



Having two sides, or relating to the right and left sides of an object. Bilateral symmetry is a symmetrical arrangement, as of an organism or a body part, along a central axis, so that the body is divided into equivalent right and left halves by only one plane. See also mirror reversal problem.


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