median plane
Americannoun
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If this vertical plane runs directly down the middle of the body, it is called the midsagittal or median plane.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Piece of Nummulitic Limestone from the Pyrenees, showing Nummulites laid open by fracture through the median plane; 2, vertical section of Nummulite; 3, Orbitoides.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
The two posterior cardinals—with their continuations forwards, the anterior cardinals—approach the median plane and undergo fusion in the region of their opening into the two ductus Cuvieri.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Brain of a human embryo, twenty-four weeks old, halved in the median plane: right hemisphere seen from inside.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Lying between the anterior end of the duodenum and the posterior end of the stomach, and extending caudad for 10 to 15 mm., in the median plane of the animal is the pancreas, pan.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
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