Ventral Synonyms and Antonyms

vĕntrəl
Nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. adaxial
Toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal)
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. abaxial
  2. dorsal

Words Related to Ventral

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Ventral Sentence Examples

  • The right ventricle occupies the ventral portion of the heart.

  • In the latter, the segmentally arranged ganglia are more sharply marked off from the connectives than in other Chaetopods, where nerve cells exist along the whole ventral chain, though more numerous in segmentally disposed swellings.

  • The principal trunks consist of a dorsal vessel lying above the gut, and a ventral vessel below the gut but above the nervous cord.

  • The dorsal vessel also communicates with the ventral vessel indirectly by the intestinal sinus, which gives off branches to both the longitudinal trunks, and by tegementary vessels and capillaries which supply the skin and the nephridia.

  • In the smaller and simpler forms the capillary networks are much reduced, but the dorsal and ventral vessels are usually present.

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