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adjective toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal)
adjective nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism
originFrom French ventral, from Latin ventrālis, from venter (“belly, abdomen”); by surface analysis, ventr- + -al.
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