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  2. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    One advantage is a left-handed catcher's ability to frame a right-handed pitcher's breaking balls. A right-handed catcher catches a right-hander's breaking ball across his body, with his glove moving out of the strike zone. A left-handed catcher would be able to catch the pitch moving into the strike zone and create a better target for the umpire.

  3. Ambidexterity - Wikipedia

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    Michael Clarke is naturally a left handed person who bowls left handed but bats right handed. Akshay Karnewar is an ambidextrous bowler. Originally, he only bowled with his right hand, but since he does everything else with his left hand, he was taught to bowl left-handed as well but needs to signal to the umpire when he switches hands when ...

  4. Left hand - Wikipedia

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    The Left Hand or Left hand may refer to: One of a pair of organs of the primate body, called hands, attached to the arms at the wrists Left-handedness, a term referring to a person who primarily uses their left hand to accomplish tasks and activities; Left Hand (comics), a comic book character owned by Marvel Comics

  5. Proper right and proper left - Wikipedia

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    Statue holding a sword in its proper right hand. Proper right and proper left are conceptual terms used to unambiguously convey relative direction when describing an image or other object. The "proper right" hand of a figure is the hand that would be regarded by that figure as its right hand. [1]

  6. Homochirality - Wikipedia

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    In biology, 19 of the 20 natural amino acids are homochiral, being L-chiral (left-handed), while sugars are D-chiral (right-handed). [1] Homochirality can also refer to enantiopure substances in which all the constituents are the same enantiomer (a right-handed or left-handed version of an atom or molecule), but some sources discourage this use ...

  7. Mirror writing - Wikipedia

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    For example, writing left handed from left to right would have been messy because the ink just put down would smudge as his hand moved across it. Writing in reverse would prevent such smudging. An alternative theory is that the process of rotating the linguistic object in memory before setting it to paper, and rotating it before reading it back ...

  8. Edinburgh Handedness Inventory - Wikipedia

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    The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory is a measurement scale used to assess the dominance of a person's right or left hand in everyday activities, sometimes referred to as laterality. The inventory can be used by an observer assessing the person, or by a person self-reporting hand use.

  9. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

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    Either the left or right hand can be dominant. In a modified tactile form used by deafblind people the signer's hand acts as the dominant hand and the receiver's hand becomes the subordinate hand. Some signs, such as the sign commonly used for the letter C, may be one-handed.