adv. [f. VENTRAL a. + -WARD(S.] To or towards the belly or ventral surface of the body.

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1883.  Sedgwick & Heape, Embryol. 165. This branch, starting from near the dorsal beginning of the fold, runs ventralwards and forwards.

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1893.  Tuckey, Amphioxis, 156. Here the mesoblast does not grow forward so far ventralwards.

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