{"id":9365,"date":"2019-05-22T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ventral\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:10","slug":"ventral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ventral\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Latin word &nbsp;for &#8216;appertaining to the belly&#8217;, it means situated to the same part of the body as the &nbsp;belly (i.e., the frontal part of the body in bipeds and the underside of the body in quadrupeds). &nbsp;In the human forebrain, however, it is used to mean inferior or bottom. &nbsp;Like caudal, dorsal and rostral, it used as a directional term in anatomy and physiology. &nbsp;Sometimes called adaxial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"caudal\">Caudal<\/a>, <a href=\"dorsal\">Dorsal<\/a>, <a href=\"dorsal_commissural_interneurons\">Dorsal commissural interneurons<\/a>, <a href=\"hypomere\">Hypomere<\/a>, <a href=\"lumbosacral_plexus\">Lumbosacral plexus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Latin word &nbsp;for &#8216;appertaining to the belly&#8217;, it means situated to the same part of the body as the &nbsp;belly (i.e., the frontal part of the body in bipeds and the underside of the body in quadrupeds). &nbsp;In the human forebrain, however, it is used to mean inferior or bottom. &nbsp;Like caudal, dorsal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ventral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ventral&#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-9365","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\/9365","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=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}