ventralward(s, adv.
[f. ventral a. + -wards.]
To or towards the belly or ventral surface of the body.
| 1883 Sedgwick & Heape Embryol. 165 This branch, starting from near the dorsal beginning of the fold, runs ventralwards and forwards. 1893 Tuckey Amphioxus 156 Here the mesoblast does not grow forward so far ventral⁓wards. |