One of my required classes in college included dissecting the entire dorsal cavity of a pig. It was disgusting.
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Dorsal
/ˈdɔː.səl/
Synonyms for "dorsal" (111 found)
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Related word relations
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More general
5 entriesanatomical featureanatomical termbody partbody structuredirectional term
More specific
8 entriesdorsal columndorsal findorsal horndorsal nucleusdorsal regiondorsal sidedorsal spinedorsal surface
Collocations
8 entriesdorsal aspectdorsal findorsal nervedorsal regiondorsal rootdorsal sidedorsal surfacedorsal view
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- ظَهْرِيّ adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Belarusian
1 entries- спінны́ adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гръбен adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Catalan
1 entries- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 背側 /背侧 adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Czech
2 entries- dorzální adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- hřbetní adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Finnish
1 entries- selänpuoleinen adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
French
1 entries- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Galician
1 entries- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
German
2 entries- Rücken- adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Italian
1 entries- dorsale adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Malay
3 entries- belakang adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- dorsum adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Polish
2 entries- dorsalny adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- grzbietowy adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Portuguese
1 entries- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Romanian
1 entries- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Russian
3 entries- дорса́льный adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- спинно́й adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- хребе́тный adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Slovak
1 entries- chrbtový adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Spanish
1 entries- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Swedish
2 entries- dorsal adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- rygg- adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Tagalog
2 entries- likuran adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- panlikod adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Ukrainian
2 entries- спинни́й adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
- хребе́тний adj (relating to the side in which the backbone is located)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Desert lizards have fine, granular dorsal scales.
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In Paint lake during the mayfly season (July up there) their dorsal fins could be seen cutting the water everywhere.
Source: tatoeba (11592855)
Dromedaries have one dorsal hump.
Source: tatoeba (12366988)
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