How to Use ventral in a Sentence

ventral

adjective

• Its gray-blue flanks were ticked with cream flecks and its ventral fins were tinged with orange.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2018
• The first, a circle where the hemispheres meet, is the ventral striatum.
  — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• Blazars are a ventral hub of power and light within these galaxies that aren’t powered by stars.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
• The coins had collected in a heavy ball that cracked the turtle’s ventral shell, leading to an acute infection.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2017
• And in 2015, the singer underwent surgery for a ventral hernia.
  — Diana García, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
• It's produced in the ventral tegmental part of the brain and is released when a person expects or receives a reward of any kind.
  — Peter Dunn, Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2017
• Romantic love triggers a part of the brain called the ventral tegmental area (VTA).
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2022
• Safety cues activates the ventral, and danger cues activate the dorsal.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• The farm fish will also potentially have damaged or eroded dorsal, ventral and tail fins from their captivity in nets.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• The ventral striatum, located in the midbrain, is part of the limbic system and is linked to perceiving rewards and pleasure.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• The ventral ganglion is a collection of nerves found on an arrow worm’s belly and is a biological feature unique only to them.
  — Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2025
• That first spark of attraction ignites a region buried deep inside the brain called the ventral tegmental area, or VTA.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
• Another region, the ventral striatum, is part of the brain’s reward and motivation system.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Time, 16 Aug. 2017
• In both situations, the neurons in the midbrain's substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area flared up in response to the images.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• The mesolimbic pathway channels dopamine from the ventral tegmental area to the ventral striatum, home to the nucleus accumbens—the brain’s pleasure hub.
  — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• The ventral area of real brains contains inhibitory, or brakelike, neurons that are not initially present in the dorsal region but that migrate there later.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• In at least two parts of the brain, a subset of neuroscientists believe that neurons may continue to form throughout life–the hippocampus and the ventral striatum.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 3 July 2025
• In Sarah's case, the circuit ran from her amygdala, an area known to control fear and other strong emotions, to her ventral striatum, which is involved in decision-making.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
• The images are input into a computer model that measures the length, width, and height (from its dorsal fin to ventral fins) of a whale and accurately calculate its mass.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2019
• When their team succeeded, the ventral striatum lit up, signaling pleasure center activation.
  — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Neuroscience revealed that the cluster is directly linked to another part of the hypothalamus called the ventral subiculum.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
• The brain’s dorsal attention network and ventral attention network are activated next.
  — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
• By 2012, neuroscientists were using deep neural networks to model the primate ventral visual stream.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
• The region—called the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)—may produce a fundamental model of our self and place it in mental time.
  — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2021
• The initially soft capsule is further processed in a specialized structure called the ventral pedal gland near the muscular foot of the whelk, which cross-links the capsule proteins and hardens the structure before it is laid.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
• At the same time, experiences of acceptance were linked with activity in the ventral striatum – a region well known for processing financial and social rewards, such as money, praise or smiles.
  — Begüm Babür, The Conversation, 9 June 2025
• Further, prediction errors, which are what seemed to determine patients' abnormal actions, are primarily processed in the ventral striatum.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2017
• When your team wins, the ventral striatum—that critical node in the brain’s reward pathway—erupts in a euphoric burst, akin to achieving a personal milestone, despite no actual direct involvement with the team.
  — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Neuroscience confirms that a rival’s failure actually activates the ventral striatum, the brain’s pleasure center, rivaling the thrill of a team’s success.
  — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• In humans, this ventral pathway begins in the eyes and proceeds to the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus, a sort of relay station for sensory information.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020