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adjectivenearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism
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"the ventral aspect of the human body" "the liver is somewhat ventral in position" "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped"adjectivetoward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal)
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- depressed flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
- eel voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
- goby small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
- gudgeon small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
- plexus lumbalis a plexus of nerves formed by the ventral branches of the first four lumbar nerves
- brachyura an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface
- spinal nerve any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal)
- ventral horn one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
- nervus spinalis any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal)
- anterior horn one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers