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Gynaecophore :: Gynaecophore (n.) A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some di/cious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Haematozoa..

Suture :: Suture (n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume..

Torus :: Torus (n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.

Styliferous :: Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria..

Gastropoda :: Gastropoda (n. pl.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca..

Parapophysis :: Parapophysis (n.) The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra..

Biventral :: Biventral (a.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum..

Prosternum :: Prosternum (n.) The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.

Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera..

Clavicle :: Clavicle (n.) The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone..

Ventral :: Ventral (a.) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower..

Dorsoventral :: Dorsoventral (a.) From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis..

Physostomi :: Physostomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others..

Dorsal :: Dorsal (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral..

Dorsiventral :: Dorsiventral (a.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral..

Terma :: Terma (n.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain..

Subpurchaser :: Subpulmonary (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs..

Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

Pterygopodium :: Pterygopodium (n.) A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper..

Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares)..

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