Dorsal [adjective]

The body shields of the head pass gradually into the dorsal plates.

The tip often forms an abrupt angle with the shaft and there is a keel on the dorsal surface of the tip (see figs. 5, 6).

Microscopic examination reveals that there is a faint keel on the dorsal surface of the tip.

Such a contrivance would save his feet, check his perspiration, and console his dorsal vertebra.

This body has deep pits both on the dorsal and ventral sides near the base.

The insertion is tendinous on the dorsal surface of the lower mandible in common with the dorsal aponeurosis of pars profundus.

The more dorsal fibrous region is practically without cells of any kind.

The most dorsal aponeurosis inserts on a tubercle at the posterior tip of the dorsal edge of the mandible.

The ventral aponeurosis inserts on a crista immediately below the insertion of the dorsal aponeurosis.

A dorsal fin cut the surface close by, there was a little flurry, and the pirate disappeared.