Dorsum Definition

dôrsəm
dorsa
noun
dorsa
The back (of an animal)
Webster's New World
The upper, outer surface of an organ, appendage, or part.
The dorsum of the foot.
American Heritage Medicine
Any part corresponding to or like the back.
The dorsum of the hand.
Webster's New World

(geology) A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon.

Wiktionary

The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants.

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Origin of Dorsum

  • Latin back

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin

    From Wiktionary

Dorsum Sentence Examples

  • Respiration is effected by means of external gills placed along both sides of the dorsum of the abdomen and hinder segments of the thorax.

  • There are no fungiform papillae on the dorsum, but a few inconspicuous ones scattered along the sides of the organ.

  • Bases of the rhinophores surrounded by a sheath; dorsal papillae tuberculated and club-shaped, in a single row on either side of the dorsum; no cnidosacs.

  • It seems probable that it is identical with one of the open sacs in which each shell-plate of a Chiton is formed, and the series of plate-like imbrications which are placed behind the single shell-sac on the dorsum of the curious slug, Plectrophorus, suggest the possibility of the formation of a series of shellsacs on the back of that animal similar to those which we find in Chiton.

  • In this position the outer margin of the wing is the costa, the inner the dorsum, and the hind-margin the termen.

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Words Starting With

DDODOR

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MUMSUM

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