comb. form of L. ventri-, venter VENTER1, occurring in various terms, as ventricornu Anat., the ventral extension of gray matter in the substance of the spinal cord; hence ventricornual a.; ventricumbent a., lying on the belly; prone, prostrate; ventriduct v., to bring to or turn towards the belly; † ventrifluous a. [ad. L. ventrifluus], ‘laxative, purging the belly’ (1727 in Bailey); ventrimeson Anat., the median line on the ventral surface of the body; hence ventrimesal adj. (1891 in Cent. Dict.); ventripetal a. (after CENTRIPETAL a.], directed towards the belly or stomach; ventripyramid Anat., = PYRAMID sb. 7 a.
1890. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VIII. 528. The *ventricornu (ventral or ‘anterior’ extension of the myelic cinerea). Ibid. The myelic cornua are strictly dorsal and ventral,… permitting the adjectives dorsicornual and *ventricornual.
1882. Wilder & Gage, Anat. Technol., 36. The body is *ventricumbent, so as to expose the dorsal aspect. Ibid., 537. To pith [a frog] *ventriduct the head with the index, and pass the tip of the right index [etc.]. Ibid., 33. For convenience, the dorsal and ventral borders of this plane may be called the dorsimeson and the *ventrimeson respectively.
1819. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 12 (1822), I. 90. Every thought of mind, and every feeling of his affection,… tends to one point, with a *ventripetal force.
1882. Wilder & Gage, Anat. Technol., 485. *Ventripyramid.
