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Isn’t this also why the terms SX and DX are used (from the Latin Sinister and Dexter, for Left and Right) respectively - because they always unambiguously refer to the subject/patient’s left and right?

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Same with port and starboard on a ship.

Or "stage right" and "stage left."

Or rive gauche and rive droite ,at least in french, as you flow in a river.

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