Definition of Dorsiventral. Meaning of Dorsiventral. Synonyms of Dorsiventral

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Definition of Dorsiventral

Dorsiventral
Dorsiventral Dor`si*ven"tral, a. [Dorsum + ventral.] 1. (Biol.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. 2. (Anat.) See Dorsoventral.

Meaning of Dorsiventral from wikipedia

- A dorsiventral (Lat. dorsum, "the back", venter, "the belly") organ is one that has two surfaces differing from each other in appearance and structure...
- the transportation system. Typically leaves are broad, flat and thin (dorsiventrally flattened), thereby maximising the surface area directly exposed to...
- Structure Thalloid or foliose Foliose Thalloid Symmetry Dorsiventral or radial Radial Dorsiventral Rhizoids Unicellular Pluricellular Unicellular Chloroplasts/cell...
- stem. Most other liverworts are thalloid, with no leaves. Due to their dorsiventral organization and scale-like, overlapping leaves, the Jungermanniales...
- plant fossil. They provide good morphological detail, especially of dorsiventral (flattened) plant parts such as leaves. If the cuticle is preserved,...
- bilateral 1.  Having two distinguishable sides, such as the two faces of a dorsiventral leaf. 2.  Arranged on opposite sides, e.g. leaves on a stem; Compare...
- circular, plate-like chloroplasts, reproducing by fragmentation, by dorsiventral, biciliate swarmers and, according to Wille, a twentieth-century algologist...
- the family Parmeliaceae. The lichen has a greenish-yellow thallus and dorsiventral lobes. It grows on conifers and Betula in North America and Eurasia....
- leaf-like lobes of foliose lichens is a different color from the top side (dorsiventral), often brown or black, sometimes white. A fruticose lichen may have...
- potometer(Demonstrate the unequal transpiration from the two surfaces of a dorsiventral leaf) Ganong's potometer(used to measure the intake of water by plants)...