{"id":7764,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dorsal\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:24","slug":"dorsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dorsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorsal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Latin word meaning &#8216;to the back&#8217;, it is facing away from the main of axis of an organ or organism. &nbsp;Thus, it can designate, for example, the surface of an animal directed away from the substrate or the dorsal column of the spinal cord. &nbsp;In the human forebrain, however, &#8216;dorsal&#8217; can mean the superior or top. &nbsp;It is used as a directional term in anatomy and physiology. &nbsp;Sometimes referred to as abaxial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"caudal\">Caudal<\/a>, <a href=\"dorsal_commissural_interneurons\">Dorsal commissural interneurons<\/a>, <a href=\"dorsal_horn\">Dorsal horn<\/a>, <a href=\"dorsal_plate_in_limb_bud\">Dorsal plate in limb bud<\/a>, Dorsal visual pathway, <a href=\"lumbosacral_plexus\">Lumbosacral plexus<\/a>, <a href=\"rostral\">Rostral<\/a>, <a href=\"ventral\">Ventral<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Latin word meaning &#8216;to the back&#8217;, it is facing away from the main of axis of an organ or organism. &nbsp;Thus, it can designate, for example, the surface of an animal directed away from the substrate or the dorsal column of the spinal cord. &nbsp;In the human forebrain, however, &#8216;dorsal&#8217; can mean the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dorsal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dorsal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}