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

Examples of this injury were numerous, especially in the dorsal region, as being the most prominent, particularly when the patients assumed the prone position when advancing on the enemy.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry

In the dorsal region they are plainly seen and felt in thin persons.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

While, as a rule, the dorsal region of this tract is relatively narrow, it is in some of great breadth, e.g. grebe, pigeon, coly.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

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