Definition of Dorsals

1. dorsal [n] - See also: dorsal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorsals

dorsal venous arch of foot
dorsal venous network of foot
dorsal venous network of hand
dorsal vertebra
dorsal vertebrae
dorsalgia
dorsalin 1
dorsalis
dorsalis pedis artery
dorsalization
dorsalize
dorsalized
dorsally
dorsals (current term)
dorse
dorsel
dorsels
dorser
dorsers
dorses
dorsibranchiata
dorsibranchiate
dorsibranchiates
dorsiduct
dorsiferous
dorsifixed
dorsiflex
dorsiflexion

Literary usage of Dorsals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"... have two dorsals, and others .have but one; among the former we first find the ... supported by cavernous bones, two dorsals, or one deeply emarginate, ..."

2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"In dorsals 12 and 13 the tubercular and capitular facets cannot be distinguished from each other. ... The CENTRA of all the dorsals are strongly and equally ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"Two separate dorsals, the first with six spines; rentrais jugular, ... Two dorsals, the first short, with six or seven spines; rentrais jugular; ..."

4. The Butterflies of North Americaby William Henry Edwards by William Henry Edwards (1897)
"the last segments; the dorsals also distinctly yellow on anterior segments, ... One had all yellow at base except the dorsals on 2 and 12, which were black. ..."

5. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1872)
"Four anterior dorsals are in one mass (figured in Plate 3 ;) in this series the lateral angle first approaching is finally lost in the margin of the rib-pit ..."

6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1882)
"The laminae and spines were complete in all the dorsals, and the spines, as a rule, increased in length and massiveness from before backwards, the 1st being ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"cervico-dorsals" of the Sauropoda and those of the emeu ... The neck motion partly involved the anterior non-spine-bearing dorsals (vertebrae with free ribs ..."

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