Definition of Dorsiventrally

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorsiventrally

dorsibranchiate
dorsibranchiates
dorsiduct
dorsiferous
dorsifixed
dorsiflex
dorsiflexion
dorsiflexions
dorsiflexor
dorsiparous
dorsiscapular
dorsispinal
dorsispinal veins
dorsiventral
dorsiventrality
dorsiventrally (current term)
dorso-ventrally
dorsocaudal
dorsocephalad
dorsodynia
dorsoflexion
dorsolateral
dorsolateral fasciculus
dorsolateral plate of neural tube
dorsolateral tract
dorsolaterally
dorsolumbar
dorsomedial
dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus
dorsomedial nucleus

Literary usage of Dorsiventrally

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"The axis is quite generally radial, the leaf has a dorsiventrally arranged vascular bundle-system. That this behaviour is as little constant as other marks ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"They are said to stand side by side, instead of dorsiventrally as they do in the other gymnosperms. These descriptions (pp. 25, 42) are evidently based on ..."

3. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"353) is usually a creeping plant (a common species is ascending), with leaves dorsiventrally arranged ; ie so placed that the shoot shows an upper and an ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... the branches of these з'-4' long, loosely clustered, dorsiventrally flattened; leaves ascending, slender, subulate, nearly equal, in 4 rows upon the ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... with a row of large reddish brown spots, other veins brownish, giving a tinge of brown to adjacent tissue ; labellum large, compressed dorsiventrally, ..."

6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The shoots are forked and are dorsiventrally flattened. The leaves are borne in four rows—two rows of smaller overlapping leaves right and left of the ..."

7. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Stems and roots commonly are radially symmetrical, possessing an infinite number of vertical planes of symmetry, while leaves are dorsiventrally symmetrical ..."

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