Word Meanings - DORSOVENTRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
Related words: (words related to DORSOVENTRAL)
- ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - DORSOVENTRAL
From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - DORSALLY
On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad. - ANIMALCULE
An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the - ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall. - ANIMALISH
Like an animal. - ANIMALISM
The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality. - VENTRAL
Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to Ant: dorsal. Of or pertaining to that surface - ANIMALCULUM
An animalcule. Note: Animalculæ, as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism. - DORSAL
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. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, - DORSALE
See N - ANIMALIZE
1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The - DORSIVENTRAL
Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. - BELL ANIMALCULE
An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds. - BIVENTRAL
Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum. - VEGETO-ANIMAL
Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.