Wondering how to use Dorsal in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as ventral or abaxial.
Dorsal meaning
- With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.
- Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand.
Using Dorsal
- The main meaning on this page is: With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate. | Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand. | With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.
- Useful related words include: ventral, abaxial, adaxial.
- In the example corpus, dorsal often appears in combinations such as: the dorsal, dorsal fin, and dorsal.
Context around Dorsal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dorsal
- In this selection, "dorsal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thus, palatal, ridged, fin, fins and nerves stand out and add context to how "dorsal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a single dorsal fin that and as the dorsal fin and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dorsal" sits close to words such as aquaculture, asap and assigning, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dorsal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Walleye sports two dorsal fins, one spiny and one soft-rayed. (11 words)
Giant willow aphids (Tuberolachnus salignus), pictured, are about 6mm long with a dorsal fin. (14 words)
They sport pointy, triangle-shaped dorsal fins with a solid white “saddle patch” behind it. (15 words)
Most of the dark parts of its body are medium gray instead of black, although it has a dark gray patch called a "dorsal cape" citation stretching back from its forehead to just behind its dorsal fin. (37 words)
The most common type (referred to above) has a row of scales beginning at the front of the dorsal fin and ending at the end of the dorsal fin (along both sides of the fin). (35 words)
The dorsal tracheae supply oxygen to the dorsal musculature and vessels, while the ventral tracheae supply the ventral musculature and nerve cord, and the visceral tracheae supply the guts, fat bodies, and gonads. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Thus dorsal–palatal, dorsal–velar, and dorsal–uvular are usually just called "palatal", "velar", and "uvular".
The gray whale is easy to identify because its ridged dorsal hump, mottled gray and white exterior, and lack of a dorsal fin set it apart from other species.
Gobies have two distinct dorsal fins, Blennies have a single dorsal fin that runs the length of their body.
Most of the dark parts of its body are medium gray instead of black, although it has a dark gray patch called a "dorsal cape" citation stretching back from its forehead to just behind its dorsal fin.
On the dorsal side, two long extrinsic extensor muscles are superficial to the intrinsic muscles, and their tendons form the dorsal aponeurosis of the toes.
The dorsal nerves penetrated the corporeal body and distally the glans in the hyena" and, in female hyenas, "the dorsal nerves fanned out laterally on the clitoral body.
The dorsal sectors (containing the dorsal striatum and substantia nigra) operate at lower levels, selecting the specific muscles and movements that are used to implement a given behavior pattern.
The dorsal tracheae supply oxygen to the dorsal musculature and vessels, while the ventral tracheae supply the ventral musculature and nerve cord, and the visceral tracheae supply the guts, fat bodies, and gonads.
The most common type (referred to above) has a row of scales beginning at the front of the dorsal fin and ending at the end of the dorsal fin (along both sides of the fin).
Giant willow aphids (Tuberolachnus salignus), pictured, are about 6mm long with a dorsal fin.
Gov. Gruesome was born with a silver spoon in his posterior, dorsal, orifice who believes he is a kings patrician who can demand that you do everything he pronounces.
Researchers immediately knew her situation wasn’t good when they saw the unnatural “S” curve in Moon’s spine, from her dorsal fin to her fluke.
The really big ones had dorsal fins about one and a half metres long,” he said.
You can discern an electric eel from a true eel by its missing dorsal fin, its ability to breathe air and its tendency to lay eggs in freshwater rather than saltwater.
Finally, Dorsal Capital Management LLC raised its position in MongoDB by 100.0% during the fourth quarter.
Giles was unable to tell if the orca was J27; identifying features such as the dorsal fin and saddle patch on its back were underwater.
They sport pointy, triangle-shaped dorsal fins with a solid white “saddle patch” behind it.
Unfortunately, they can also catch humans unaware with their sharp dorsal spines that are loaded with venom that only releases under pressure.
Walleye sports two dorsal fins, one spiny and one soft-rayed.
In the videos, remoras tended to cluster around the whale’s blowhole and dorsal fin.
Common combinations with dorsal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: