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

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)

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

Examples of this injury were numerous, especially in the dorsal region, as being the most prominent, particularly when the patients assumed the prone position when advancing on the enemy.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry

The macronucleus is situated in the dorsal region in the central part of the body.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)