dorsoventrally
- a word derived from dorsoventral.
Example Sentences
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These animals bear one pair of legs per segment, mandibles as mouthparts, and are somewhat dorsoventrally flattened.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Modern crocodilians are well known for having elongate, superficially tubular snouts where the rostrum is dorsoventrally flattened.
From Scientific American ● May 24, 2012
Presumably the fragment is too deep dorsoventrally to be a piece of the dentary, and no sign of the Meckelian canal is present.
From Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma by Fox, Richard C.
The proximal ends of the ribs expand dorsoventrally to a width approximately four times that of their slender shafts.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
In reconstruction, the skull measures approximately 8.0 mm. dorsoventrally at the posterior end.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
