dorsal region

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When she reached the dorsal region, Tracey told me, the patients “were leaping off the bed.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

In the dorsal region they are plainly seen and felt in thin persons.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

Predorsal, prē-dor′sal, adj. situated before the dorsal region of the spine: cervical.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Kyphosis is the most common of the deviations in man and is most often found in the dorsal region, although it may be in the lumbar region.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Whatever the natural attitude of the animal, however, and the consequent position of the dorsal region, it exists alike in all the five orders, though it has not the same extent and importance in each.

From Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. by Agassiz, Alexander