Boat-shaped embryo of the dog, from the ventral side, magnified about ten times.

Larva of the Spotted Salamander (Salamandra maculata), seen from the ventral side.

Together, Lundberg and I flipped the subject ventral side up.

Human embryo, four weeks old, opened on the ventral side.

The flattened side is the subsequent dorsal side; the opposite or ventral side remains curved.

A from the dorsal, B from the ventral side.

One principal vessel runs along the dorsal side of the gut, another along its ventral side.

The detached germinative area is seen from the ventral side: the arteries are dark, the veins light.

Head of a shark (Scyllium), from the ventral side.

On the ventral side of the gut, some distance behind the gill-crate, there is a spindle-shaped heart.

The form is oval, slightly compressed on the ventral side, while the dorsal side is distinctly arched.

A seen from ventral side, B from the left.)

Hypospadias is a common birth defect where the urethral opening forms on the ventral side of the penis.

The ventral side is slightly incurved.

In these the central marrow has been prolonged down the dorsal side; in the Articulates down the ventral side.

But similar arches develop on the ventral side for the protection of the viscera in the breast and belly.