Ventral a. : Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.Ventral a. : Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.Ventral a. : Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.Example:Is the Ventral foot of Gastropods HOMOLOGOUS to the tentacles of Cephalopods? How?Taxonomyaxis, organism, body, vertebrates, dorsal, ventral, Latin, humans, directional terms, distal, perpendicular axes, planes, appendages, respect to, limbs, left-right, DV, human anatomy.Defination from the web:ventral ("towards the abdomen") in all vertebrates. ... As with anteroposterior, the terms "dorsal" and "ventral" are also used to describe relative positions along the dorsoventral axis. ...
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