Ventral Definition

vĕntrəl
adjective
Relating to or situated on or close to the abdomen; abdominal.
American Heritage Medicine
Of, near, on, or toward the belly or the side of the body where the belly is located: in humans the front, or anterior, side but in most other animals the lower, or inferior, side.
Webster's New World
Of or belonging to the inner or lower surface.
Webster's New World
Of or on the surface of an organ or part facing toward the axis; adaxial.
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noun
A ventral part, such as a fin or scale.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Ventral

Noun

Singular:
ventral
Plural:
ventrals

Origin of Ventral

  • Late Latin ventrālis from Latin venter ventr- belly

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

Ventral Sentence Examples

  • The right ventricle occupies the ventral portion of the heart.

  • In the latter, the segmentally arranged ganglia are more sharply marked off from the connectives than in other Chaetopods, where nerve cells exist along the whole ventral chain, though more numerous in segmentally disposed swellings.

  • The principal trunks consist of a dorsal vessel lying above the gut, and a ventral vessel below the gut but above the nervous cord.

  • The dorsal vessel also communicates with the ventral vessel indirectly by the intestinal sinus, which gives off branches to both the longitudinal trunks, and by tegementary vessels and capillaries which supply the skin and the nephridia.

  • In the smaller and simpler forms the capillary networks are much reduced, but the dorsal and ventral vessels are usually present.

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Words Starting With

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