What is the meaning of Lateral?

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.
(a.) Lying at or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.
(a.) Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.

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