ventral : Idioms & Phrases

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ventral fin

  • noun either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate
    ventral fin; pelvic fin.
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Ventral fins

  • noun either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate
    ventral fin; pelvic fin.
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  • (Zoöl.), the posterior pair of fins of a fish. They are often situated beneath the belly, but sometimes beneath the throat.
Webster 1913

ventral horn

  • noun one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
    anterior root; ventral horn; anterior horn.
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ventral placentation

  • noun with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary
    marginal placentation.
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ventral root

  • noun one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
    anterior root; ventral horn; anterior horn.
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Ventral segment

  • . (Acoustics) See Loop, n., 5.
Webster 1913