adjective

• Of, on, or relating to the underside of an animal or plant; abdominal.

  ‘a ventral nerve cord’

  Compare with dorsal

  More example sentences

  • ‘the ventral part of the head’
  • ‘The nervous system consists of a lobed dorsal brain and ventral nerve cord with fused paired ganglia.’
  • ‘If either of these proteins is absent, then the motor axons select dorsal and ventral pathways randomly.’
  • ‘The dorsal and ventral edges of the centra are more nearly equal in width in the larger specimens.’
  • ‘The waves continue coupled to a series of dorsal and ventral flexions of the whole body.’
  • ‘Just outside each vertebra, the dorsal and ventral roots unite to form a spinal nerve on each side.’

  Synonyms

  enteric, gastroenteric, duodenal, coeliac, gastric, ventral, stomach, abdominal, visceral