Definition of "ventrad" []

• Toward the ventral side or surface. (adverb)

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• "Lying at a considerable distance ventrad to the main body of the section, are seen the two sections of the small intestine, _i_, surrounded by irregular strands of tissue from the umbilicus."
• "Instead of lying almost entirely ventrad to the lungs, as in the preceding figure, the oesophagus here lies directly between them."
• "From the ventral wall of the large intestine, at a point about one-third the distance from the cloaca to the caecum, projects ventrad and cephalad the stalk of the allantois, _al_."