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  • adjective Both ventral and lateral; extending from a ventral to a lateral surface.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the ventral and lateral sides of the body: as, the ventrolateral muscles.

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  • adjective anatomy Both ventral and lateral

Etymologies

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ventro- +‎ lateral

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Examples

  • In a region of the brain known as the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), neurons must fire continuously for people to avoid being distracted.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • In a region of the brain known as the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), neurons must fire continuously for people to avoid being distracted.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Combining retrograde tracing with cholera toxin B subunit (CTb) and glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) immunostaining, we proposed that these PS-off GABAergic neurons could be localized in three areas namely the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG) and the dorsal part of the deep mesencephalic reticular nucleus (dDpMe), the caudal pontine reticular nucleus (PnC) and / or the SLD itself

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Furthermore, Catholic subjects also showed increased activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain known to be involved in the evaluation of sensory experiences including pain.

    Matt J. Rossano: Fear of Death, Joy of Life and the Origins of God Matt J. Rossano 2010

  • Furthermore, Catholic subjects also showed increased activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain known to be involved in the evaluation of sensory experiences including pain.

    Matt J. Rossano: Fear of Death, Joy of Life and the Origins of God Matt J. Rossano 2010

  • Furthermore, Catholic subjects also showed increased activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain known to be involved in the evaluation of sensory experiences including pain.

    Matt J. Rossano: Fear of Death, Joy of Life and the Origins of God Matt J. Rossano 2010

  • Furthermore, Catholic subjects also showed increased activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain known to be involved in the evaluation of sensory experiences including pain.

    Matt J. Rossano: Fear of Death, Joy of Life and the Origins of God Matt J. Rossano 2010

  • What lights up instead is the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, part of the brain that controls impulses.

    Talking About Your Feelings Makes You Feel Better | Impact Lab 2007

  • • The stingray's tail has 1 or more barbed stingers and 2 ventrolateral venom-containing grooves that are encased in an integumentary sheath.

    Goodbye Steve!, I learned alot!! 2006

  • Each passes between the anterior perforated substance and the tuber cinereum, and, winding around the ventrolateral aspect of the cerebral peduncle, divides into a medial and a lateral root.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

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  • relating to both, on the front and the side

    July 31, 2009