dorsalspecialized
anatomy specialized
relating to the human abdomen(= the lower part of the body containing the stomach), or the front side of the body generally:
The patient had a ventral hernia repair.
The brain regions that are active are located mainly in the ventral and dorsal visual processing pathways.
Unlike a basking shark, this animal had a clearly defined white ventral side.
The ventral aspect of the tongue is the most frequent site of tumours.
The pancreas develops in two parts, a dorsal and a ventral part.

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ventral
Here both systems function unconsciously, unlike the conscious functioning of the ventral system in the perceptual learning discussed above.
The dorsal and ventral visual systems are defined anatomically.
Therefore, the ventral prefrontal cortex has been placed in both nodes in our model.
Drevets et al. (1997) have previously demonstrated increased resting metabolism in a more ventral subgenual cingulate region in manic patients.
The ventral epicondyle is enlarged, extending distally to below the level of the dorsal and ventral condyles.
The single spicule is 1152 to 1392 long, and 16 caudal spines are arranged in two ventral and two lateral rows, each bearing four spines.
Given the extensive interconnections between the amygdala and orbitofrontal regions one might also expect to see alterations in the ventral frontal regions as well.
Serial electron microscopic reconstruction of axon terminals on physiologically identified thalamcortical neurons in the cat ventral lateral nucleus.
Ventral surface of posterior end ornamented with longitudinal and oblique cuticular ridges.
In the octopus retina, dynein localization was distinctly granular; epifluorescence microscopy showed that it was more prevalent in the ventral than dorsal retina.
Our findings lend considerable support to the notion that the ventral retina is somehow connected to the dorsal retina.
In other words, the dorsal grasping response and the ventral vocal response did not interfere with each other.
Figure 1 shows the separation of dorsal and ventral pathways in schematic form.
In vision these are the dorsal and ventral pathways.
Similar peaks of ganglion cell density in the ventral-temporal region were seen in all four zebrafish retina examined.
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