adv. Anat. and Zool. [f. L. ventr-, stem of venter abdomen, + -AD.] Toward the ventral surface of the body.
1847–9. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. I. 639. There appears ventrad of the saurian cervix … that series of osseous pieces marked c, d.
1882. Wilder & Gage, Anat. Technol., 44. C may be said to lie either ventrad or laterad of B.
1895. Mivart, in Proc. Zool. Soc., 369. The greater extension ventrad of the apex of the prosopium.
