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The meaning of the word "Ventral" in English


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?

Taxonomy
axis, 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. ... 

synonyms
  (adjective) adaxial
antonyms
  (adjective) abaxial
  (adjective) dorsal
similar terms
  (adjective) dorsoventral


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