Definition of Dorsolateral

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or situated on both the back and the side ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dorsolateral

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Dorsolateral

1. Relating to the back and the side. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorsolateral

dorsiflexion
dorsiflexions
dorsiflexor
dorsiparous
dorsiscapular
dorsispinal
dorsispinal veins
dorsiventral
dorsiventrality
dorsiventrally
dorso-ventrally
dorsocaudal
dorsocephalad
dorsodynia
dorsoflexion
dorsolateral (current term)
dorsolateral fasciculus
dorsolateral plate of neural tube
dorsolateral tract
dorsolaterally
dorsolumbar
dorsomedial
dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus
dorsomedial nucleus
dorsomedial nucleus of hypothalamus
dorsosacral position
dorsoventrad
dorsoventral
dorsoventrality
dorsoventrally

Literary usage of Dorsolateral

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

1. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"Each hemisphere has three surfaces: a convex dorsolateral surface (Fig. ... A dorsal border separates the dorsolateral from the medial surface; ..."

2. An Atlas of the Medulla and Midbrain: A Laboratory Manual by Florence Rena Sabin (1901)
"1) is an indistinct line where it curves onto the dorsolateral surface. Its ventral border makes the curve of the surface form. This curve or ventral border ..."

3. Essentials of physiology: Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Sidney Payne Budgett (1915)
"The fibers ascend at first in the dorsolateral tract, but the longer fibers ... The dorsolateral tract, when it reaches the medulla, consists chiefly of ..."

4. Description of a New Species of Sea Snake from the Philippine Islands: With by John Van Denburgh, Joseph Cheesman Thompson (1908)
"Bluish gray above; upper lip, dorsolateral and lateral folds white; loreal and tympanic regions, area between dorsolateral and lateral folds and stripe ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"The ventrolateral and dorsolateral fissures with their rows of nerve fascicles divide the surface of the medulla oblongata on each side into three districts ..."

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