adv. [f. VENTRAL a. + -WARD(S.] To or towards the belly or ventral surface of the body.
1883. Sedgwick & Heape, Embryol. 165. This branch, starting from near the dorsal beginning of the fold, runs ventralwards and forwards.
1893. Tuckey, Amphioxis, 156. Here the mesoblast does not grow forward so far ventralwards.
