ventral

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Recent Examples of ventral These tiny creatures generate light from three different body parts: their ventral surfaces, lower margins of each eye, and tips of each of the fourth pair of arms. Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 28 Apr. 2025 Taurus, like others, is identifiable by his ventral markings. Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 17 Apr. 2025 Within this structure, the team focused on an area called the ventral shell. Elana Spivack, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2025 Vicarious Surgical plans to continue developing its surgical robotics technology and is seeking FDA authorization for its Vicarious Surgical System for use in ventral hernia repair procedures. Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ventral
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ventral
Adjective
  • During the mauling, the girl received lacerations to her face, left anterior chest and right neck, according to the lawsuit.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2025
  • The same oxytocin and vasopressin systems responsible for long-term romantic bonding in monogamous species are also activated in human relationships, with observable effects on neural regions like the anterior cingulate cortex, ventral pallidum and insula.
    Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • Over four seasons of The Righteous Gemstones, viewers could rely on certain things: male full frontal, jokes about ass play, a moment of physical comedy from Edi Patterson’s petulant and petty Judy Gemstone that might cause your face to break from laughter.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 May 2025
  • Or consider the sizable percentage of death row prisoners with histories of traumatic brain injury to their frontal cortex.
    Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Photos from the scene show the felines pressed against the front windshield of the van, with others found in cardboard boxes inside the vehicle.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 1 July 2025
  • Fox was one of many celebrities seated in the front row inside the New York Public Library, alongside Nicky Hilton Rothschild, influencer Olivia Ponton, Ego Nwodim, Bijou Phillips and Anna Wintour, who recently stepped down from her post as head of editorial at American Vogue.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Now, Moore’s work on The Substance has brought to the fore conversations about how society devalues women with age.
    Time, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Elsewhere, the corset served as a blank canvas, bringing other trends to the fore like bow embellishments, colorful florals and Ren-fair references.
    Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Ventral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ventral. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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