Lateral vs. Distal — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or situated at or on the side.

Situated away from the centre of the body or from the point of attachment

Of or constituting a change within an organization or hierarchy to a position at a similar level, as in salary or responsibility, to the one being left

Anatomically located far from a point of reference, such as an origin or a point of attachment.

(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a sound produced by breath passing along one or both sides of the tongue.

Situated farthest from the middle and front of the jaw, as a tooth or tooth surface.

A lateral part, projection, passage, or appendage.

Remote from the point of attachment or origin.

(Football) A lateral pass.

(dentistry) Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw.

(Linguistics) A lateral sound, such as (l).

(linguistics) Far or farther from the speaker.

To execute a lateral pass.

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle

To pass (the ball) sideways or backward.

Situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone

To the side; of or pertaining to the side.

Directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body

Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.

(disease) Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.

(physics) Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.

(UK) Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.

Pertaining to speech sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tongue, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.

An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.

(linguistics) A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).

(American football) A lateral pass.

(business) An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.

To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction.

(American football) To execute a lateral pass.

Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; - opposed to mesial.

Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.

A short pass to a receiver who is upfield from the passer, i.e. is behind the passer relative to the direction of the passer's goal.

A part or extension of something that points sideways, as a drift in a mine that goes to the side from the main one.

To pass the footbal to a receiver who is behind the passer; to make a lateral pass; as, the ball was lateraled to the fullback, who ran it for a touchdown.

A pass to a receiver upfield from the passer

Situated at or extending to the side;

Lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body;