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What is the difference between anterior and dorsal?
Anterior (or ventral) Describes the front or direction toward the front of the body. The toes are anterior to the foot. Posterior (or dorsal) Describes the back or direction toward the back of the body.
How are dorsal and posterior difference?
In context|anatomy|lang=en terms the difference between dorsal and posterior. is that dorsal is (anatomy) the top surface of foot and/or hand while posterior is (anatomy) nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
How is ventral different from anterior?
The term anterior means ‘towards the front’ while the term ventral means ‘on or relating to the stomach of the animal or plant”.
Can anterior and posterior be used interchangeably with?
Your friend assures you that anterior and posterior can always be used interchangeably with ventral and dorsal. Since humans stand on two legs, posterior refers to something further back or near our hind end and anterior refers something higher in position or near our head.
What is the difference between dorsal and ventral?
Dorsal vs Ventral. • Dorsal is the backside while ventral is the opposite of backside. • When a particular organ (A) is ventral to another (B), the organ-B lies dorsal to the organ-A. • Ventral side bears more external organs than the dorsal side usually does. • Usually, the dorsal side is hardy while the ventral side is tender.
What is the difference between anterior and ventral?
In context|anatomy|lang=en terms the difference between anterior and ventral is that anterior is (anatomy) nearer the forward end; nearer the head of an animal or the front of a human while ventral is (anatomy) on the front side of the human body, or the corresponding surface of an animal, usually the lower surface.
Is ventral the same as anterior?
– Dorsal: when something is said to be dorsal, it means that it is closer to the back side of the body. For example, the brain is dorsal to the eyes. – In a quadruped the terms anterior and posterior are synonymous with cranial and caudal. In humans, ventral and anterior, dorsal and posterior are interchangeable because we walk upright, or bipedal.
What is the definition of dorsal and ventral?
Dorsal and ventral. These two terms, used in anatomy and embryology, refer to back (dorsal) and front or belly (ventral) of an organism. The dorsal (from Latin dorsum, meaning ‘back’) surface of an organism refers to the back, or upper side, of an organism. If talking about the skull, the dorsal side is the top.