ventral

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It is called the ventral hippocampus, which is responsible for learning, emotions, fear and memory.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025

The proliferation was isolated to a brain region known as the ventral tegmental area, which is involved in reward learning and addiction.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024

“While enrolled trilobite fossils are really common, we don’t have any of the ventral soft tissue preserved,” said Sarah Losso, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University who specializes in trilobite evolution.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2023

Mr Dixon pioneered the use of artificial mesh to lift prolapsed bowels and a review of the care he gave patients receiving Laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy has already concluded.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2023

The thyroid, which in the adult is a complicated ductless gland, has in the young Ammocoetes the form of a longitudinal groove of the ventral wall of the pharynx.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various