Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Toward the ventral side or surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology and anatomy, to or toward the belly or ventral surface or aspect of the body: noting direction or relative situation: opposed to dorsad or neurad, and equivalent to hemad or sternad: as, the heart is situated ventrad of the spinal column; the cœliac axis branches ventrad of the aorta.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb (Anat.) Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to
dorsad .
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- adverb anatomy Toward the
ventral side.
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Examples
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It extends caudad and dorsal about the same distance as the latter organ, but it extends ventrad and cephalad far beyond the boundaries of the stomach.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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Caudad to the openings of the Wolffian ducts the cloaca extends ventrad as a narrow, solid tongue of epithelium towards the exterior, figure 5I, and fuses with the superficial ectoderm at the caudal end of a prominent ridge that lies in the mid-ventral line between the posterior appendages.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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At some distance ventrad to the structures just described the intestine is cut, by the plane of the section, in two places, _i_.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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The loop of the duodenum that, in the sections, is seen to lie directly ventrad to the gizzard, in the reconstruction is shown too much to the side of the latter organ.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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The mesoderm that extends ventrad from the mesentery, on each side of the entoderm just described, consists of a thick layer of compactly arranged cells.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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A short distance caudad to the ends of the bronchial rudiments the oesophagus turns suddenly ventrad and becomes much enlarged to form the stomach, figure 5F, _i´_, which may be traced through twenty-five or thirty sections in this series.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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Instead of lying almost entirely ventrad to the lungs, as in the preceding figure, the oesophagus here lies directly between them.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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Lying at a considerable distance ventrad to the main body of the section, are seen the two sections of the small intestine, _i_, surrounded by irregular strands of tissue from the umbilicus.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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From the ventral wall of the large intestine, at a point about one-third the distance from the cloaca to the caecum, projects ventrad and cephalad the stalk of the allantois, _al_.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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While the trachea and bronchi lie ventrad to the oesophagus, the lungs lie laterad and even dorsad to the oesophagus and cardiac end of the stomach.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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