On 17 January 2015 at 14:06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:

>
>     We would never even consider calling people who have two feet
>     "cispedal" or people who have blood pressure in the normal range
>     "cistensive".


Well, yes....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans_isomerism

"In organic chemistry, cis/trans isomerism (also known as geometric
isomerism) is a form of stereoisomerism describing the relative
orientation of functional groups within a molecule."



Thank you for proving my point.  I despair of having to defend humanity from comparisons to molecules. 

RIsker/ANne