ventrad
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of ventrad
Example Sentences
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Instead of lying almost entirely ventrad to the lungs, as in the preceding figure, the oesophagus here lies directly between them.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
The mesoderm that extends ventrad from the mesentery, on each side of the entoderm just described, consists of a thick layer of compactly arranged cells.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
This cavity is a part of the system of hollow liver trabeculae seen as a group of irregular masses of cells ventrad to the enteron at the opening of the anterior intestinal portal.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
From the ventral wall of the large intestine, at a point about one-third the distance from the cloaca to the caecum, projects ventrad and cephalad the stalk of the allantois, al.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
Filling the greater part of the body cavity, below the oesophagus and lung rudiments, is the liver, li; and ventrad to the liver the section passes through a loop of the duodenum, d.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
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