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LIE

 The verb to lie comes from the Latin word iacēre . The first meaning mentioned by the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) in its dictionary refers, with respect to an individual, to being lying down or lying down . A person can lie on the ground for different reasons. Whoever passes out from a sudden drop in blood pressure, to name one possibility, may collapse and lie on the floor. The same is the case for those who lose consciousness from consuming alcohol excessively . For example: “After lying in the park for several hours without being assisted, the man managed to recover and got up” , “The damage caused by the earthquake forced him to lie under rubble for several hours until he managed to free himself” , “I don't have forces, but I try not to lie anywhere and continue with my daily activities ”. When the term is applied to a corpse , it refers to its location: “So soon he saw his mother lie in the tomb, the young man burst into tears” , “I don't want to lie in the cemetery, ...

LEFT HANDED

  Zurdo is an adjective that alludes to that linked to the left hand . In general, the concept is used to describe the person who has a natural predisposition to use the extremities on the left side of the body. For example: "Diego Armando Maradona and Lionel Messi, two of the best footballers in all of history, are left-handed" , "In ancient times, teachers forced left-handed children to write with their right hands" , "It is difficult for me to use this clamp because I'm left-handed ” . It called zurdera to the condition of the left - hander. The left-hander is considered a phenotype : a specific manifestation of a genotype according to a certain environment. The genotype , for its part, is constituted by the genetic material that an organism harbors in its DNA . Left-handers, on a social level, are a minority : the majority of the population is right-handed (they tend to use the right side of the body ). Those who can perform fine motor tasks with both s...