dorsal region

The ventral area of real brains contains inhibitory, or brakelike, neurons that are not initially present in the dorsal region but that migrate there later.

When she reached the dorsal region, Tracey told me, the patients “were leaping off the bed.”

To add support for the dual origin hypothesis, Dr. Linz said, evolution would have had to fuse a structure on the dorsal region of the segment and one from the pleural tissue.

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

In this connection we here repeat that it is not the general curvature of the vertebral column which produces the withers, but the great length of the spinous process of the first vertebræ of the dorsal region.