dorsal region
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When she reached the dorsal region, Tracey told me, the patients “were leaping off the bed.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
The viscero-pericardial sac of the Dibranchs is very large also, and extends into the dorsal region.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
The opisthosoma consisted of eight or nine segments, whereof the anterior five or six were very short in the dorsal region, and the posterior three exceptionally large with the anal orifice terminal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Kyphosis is the most common of the deviations in man and is most often found in the dorsal region, although it may be in the lumbar region.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The macronucleus is situated in the dorsal region in the central part of the body.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
