Not really - "cranial" or "rostral" would be more "in front". Ventral is a directional term used in non-human animals. It means "towards the ground" or "towards the belly or abdominal surface". The opposite directional term is dorsal, which means "towards the backbone".
ventral is from the base view. so imagine a dog standing up. Dorsal would be looking down onto its back and ventral would be lokking up towards its tummy from the ground.
Breaking it down, Median would mean in the middle, ventral has something to do with the abdomen (compare ventral and dorsal, dorsal means back), and vessel would be a duct or canal. So, it would be the canal in the middle of the abdomen.
the dorsal is along the back and is darker from the main blood stream, where as the ventral is along the front and is very light from the less blood in the certain vessel....so yeah
Not always. In anatomy, superior applies to the head end and inferior to the foot end. Dorsal refers to the back, while ventral refers to the front (belly). However, in human cranial anatomy the term "superior" is applied to dorsal locations (up), while "inferior" is applied to ventral locations (down).
The ventral nerve cord makes up nearly all of the nervous system in the earthworm. It goes from the anterior (front) end to the posterior (back) end. It's function is simple; it's the nerves in the worm! If dissected, the nerve cord looks like a thin white line on the ventral (belly) side on the inside of the skin.
Ventral means front, therefore "ventral to the spinal cord" would mean "in front of the spinal cord"
Sagittal means in the direction from dorsal to ventral (from back to front).
Ventral-lateral is a medical term refering to the front (ventral) and side (lateral ) of a body structure. A broken bone in the arm can be described as showing a ventral-lateral angulation, meaning it is sticking to the front and the side.
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The anterior side of the body is the front, or the ventral.
The terms ventral and dorsal are lay terms that mean front and back. These terms are synopsis with anterior and posterior, however they are more commonly used for quadrupeds.Read more: If_someone_assures_you_that_anterior_and_posterior_can_alwas_be_used_interchangeably_with_ventral_and_dorsal_how_do_you_explain_the_that_this_statement_is_not_always_true
In medical terminology, ventral refers to the front side of the body or an organ. It is the opposite of dorsal, which refers to the back side.
Posterior (Back)Anterior (Front)term means pertaining to the back and to the front
ventral is from the base view. so imagine a dog standing up. Dorsal would be looking down onto its back and ventral would be lokking up towards its tummy from the ground.
Dorsal and ventral.
The front of the body is the anterior or ventral aspect.
The term for the front of the body is "anterior."