Definition of ventral

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Ventral (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.

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Gastrotrocha :: Gastrotrocha (n.) A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.
Apodal :: Apodal (n.) Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels..
Subsaline :: Subsacral (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum..
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares)..
Subcelestial :: Subcaudal (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones..
Infrabranchial :: Infrabranchial (a.) Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.
Subpurchaser :: Subpulmonary (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs..
Subofficer :: Subocular (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye..
Biventral :: Biventral (a.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum..
Dorsiventral :: Dorsiventral (a.) See Dorsoventral.
Coelospermous :: Coelospermous (a.) Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed..
Throat :: Throat (n.) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column..
Ventrad :: Ventrad (adv.) Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.
Subinvolution :: Subintestinal (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine..
Gastrotricha :: Gastrotricha (n. pl.) A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids..
Dermohaemal :: Dermohaemal (a.) Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and haemal structures; as, the dermohaemal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes..
Acanthopterygii :: Acanthopterygii (n. pl.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch..
Synepy :: Synentognathi (n. pl.) An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flying fishes..
Suture :: Suture (n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume..
Torus :: Torus (n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.
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