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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ventral/ˈventrəl/

▶adjective Anatomy, Zoology, & Botany on or relating to the underside of an animal or plant; abdominal. Compare with dorsal.

– derivatives
ventrally adverb.

– origin ME: from L. venter, ventr- ‘belly’ + -al.

'ventral' also found in these Oxford entries:

coronal plane - diencephalon - dorsal - dorsiventral - dorsoventral - haemal - lumpsucker - opossum shrimp - plastron - snailfish - sternum - ventral fin

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