ventral

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We found activity in a tiny little factory near the base of the brain called the ventral tegmental area.

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  1. adjective Anatomy Relating to or situated on or close to the abdomen; abdominal.
  2. adjective Anatomy Relating to or situated on or close to the anterior aspect of the human body or the lower surface of the body of an animal.
  3. adjective Botany Of or on the lower or inner surface of an organ that faces the axis; adaxial.
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  • We found activity in a tiny little factory near the base of the brain called the ventral tegmental area. —  Helen Fisher studies the brain in love
  • Using brain scans to measure blood flow, British researchers discovered that a brain region known as the ventral striatum was more active when subjects chose unusual objects in controlled tests. —  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel
  • Review: Cytological characteristics of commissural and tuberculo-ventral neurons in the rat dorsal cochlear nucleus —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The goal of the present review is to summarize the main ultrastructural and immunocytochemical characteristics for glycine and GABA in commissural (COM) and tuberculo-ventral neurons (TV) of the DCN. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It's called proximal - distal, dorsal - ventral, anterior - posterior. —  ScreenTalk
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  1. Late Latin ventrālis, from Latin venter, ventr-, belly.

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  1. from French ventral = Spanish Portuguese ventral = Italian ventrale, from Latin ventralis, of or pertaining to the belly or stomach, from venter, belly, stomach: see venter.
 

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/ˈvɛntrəl/
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