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 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
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 anus is terminal and the contractile vacuole may be terminal or situated forwards in the dorsal region.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
In the dorsal region they are plainly seen and felt in thin persons.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
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