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

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

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

The dorsal region of the base culminates in a point, from which there is a ridge that extends anteriorly and that tapers rapidly into the shaft near the tip.

From Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks by White, John A.

Predorsal, prē-dor′sal, adj. situated before the dorsal region of the spine: cervical.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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