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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In the direction of the back; dorsally.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, toward the dorsum or back; backward, with reference to the animal itself, without regard to its posture: as, the spinal cord lies dorsad of the bodies of the vertebræ; the aorta arches dorsad as well as sinistrad: opposed to ventrad, and in Vertebrata equivalent to neurad.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb (Anat.) Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb anatomy Toward the dorsal side.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin dorsum back + ad to.

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