superior development of one side of the body

[ Syn: laterality ]

the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her

[ Syn: ascendance , ascendence , ascendancy , ascendency , control ]

the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not

the power or right to give orders or make decisions; he has the authority to issue warrants; deputies are given authorization to make arrests; a place of potency in the state

[ Syn: authority , authorization , authorisation , potency , say-so ]