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

While, as a rule, the dorsal region of this tract is relatively narrow, it is in some of great breadth, e.g. grebe, pigeon, coly.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

The anus is terminal and the contractile vacuole may be terminal or situated forwards in the dorsal region.

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

The viscero-pericardial sac of the Dibranchs is very large also, and extends into the dorsal region.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

The dorsal region of the base culminates in a point, from which there is a ridge that extends anteriorly and that tapers rapidly into the shaft near the tip.

From Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks by White, John A.