Dorsum Synonyms

dôrsəm
The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. back
  2. posterior

Words Related to Dorsum

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. outer side
  2. alveolar-ridge
  3. hard-palate
  4. mastoid-process
  5. upper-arm

Dorsum Sentence Examples

  • Respiration is effected by means of external gills placed along both sides of the dorsum of the abdomen and hinder segments of the thorax.

  • There are no fungiform papillae on the dorsum, but a few inconspicuous ones scattered along the sides of the organ.

  • Bases of the rhinophores surrounded by a sheath; dorsal papillae tuberculated and club-shaped, in a single row on either side of the dorsum; no cnidosacs.

  • It seems probable that it is identical with one of the open sacs in which each shell-plate of a Chiton is formed, and the series of plate-like imbrications which are placed behind the single shell-sac on the dorsum of the curious slug, Plectrophorus, suggest the possibility of the formation of a series of shellsacs on the back of that animal similar to those which we find in Chiton.

  • In this position the outer margin of the wing is the costa, the inner the dorsum, and the hind-margin the termen.

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