adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In a ventral direction; on or toward the venter; with respect to the venter or abdomen.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 368. Actinocarpus Damasonium:… carpels dehiscing ventrally.

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1872.  Humphry, Myology, 2. Ventrally, it is attached to the margin of the lower jaw.

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1883.  Martin & Moale, Vertebr. Dissect., 137. The anterior abdominal vein … runs ventrally and forward.

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  Comb.  1870.  Rolleston, Anim. Life, 83. The various ventrally-placed appendages of the articulate Neuropods.

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1904.  Brit. Med. Jrnl., 17 Dec., 1631. The ventrally bending limb … having no mesoblastic somites dorsal to it.

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  2.  In or from the venter or abdomen.

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1889.  H. J. Barker, Orig. Eng., i. 15. I laughed myself (ventrally, of course,) when the youngsters so innocently committed themselves.

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