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Definition: DORSIVENTRAL

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. An alternative spelling for "Dorsoventral": From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.[Websters]
2. Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.[Websters]
3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb dorsiventrally.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(dorsiventrally)		 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective dorsiventral.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Dorsiventral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Dorsiventral \Dor`si*ven"tral\, adjective. [Dorsum ventral.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: DORSIVENTRAL

Domain Definition
Geology Having structurally different upper and lower surfaces. (references)
Science With distinct upper and lower surfaces. (references)
Wikipedic Dorsiventral (Lat. dorsum, "the back", venter, "the belly") is a term used to describe an organ which has two surfaces differing from each other in appearance and structure, as an ordinary leaf. In biology, this term also refers to that which extends from a dorsal to a ventral surface. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: DORSIVENTRAL

Dorsiventral

Dorsiventral (Lat. dorsum, "the back", venter, "the belly") is a term used to describe an organ which has two surfaces differing from each other in appearance and structure, as an ordinary leaf. In biology, this term also refers to that which extends from a dorsal to a ventral surface.

References

  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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