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Dorsum

Dorsum \Dor"sum\, n. [L.]

  1. The ridge of a hill.

  2. (Anat.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.

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dorsum

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The back or dorsal region on an animal. 2 (context geology English) A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon. 3 (context astronomy English) Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat 4 The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. 5 The top of the foot or the back of the hand.

WordNet
dorsum
  1. n. the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back]

  2. the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part); "the dorsum of the foot"

  3. [also: dorsa (pl)]

Wikipedia
Dorsum

Dorsum (plural Dorsa) is a Latin word. In science, it could mean:

  • Dorsum (anatomy), the upper side of an animal, or the back in humans and similarly erect organisms
  • Dorsum (astrogeology), a term used in astrogeology for a ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon
  • Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat
  • the back of the tongue, which is used for articulating dorsal consonants
  • the top of the foot or the back of the hand
  • Dorsum (moth), a genus.
Dorsum (moth)

Dorsum is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family.

Usage examples of "dorsum".

With a jutting knuckle, Willie rapped sharply on the dorsum of the gun hand, and caught the gun as it fell from momentarily powerless fingers.

An abrupt turn then led over rough ground, the lower folds of the Umm Furut, where a great granite gorge, the Nakb Abu Shar, ran up to a depression in the dorsum, an apparently practicable Col.

All stations and teams between Alba Patera in the north and Gordii Dorsum in the south are advised to take emergency precautions.

She swallowed a hard, painful lump and stared at her hand again, tracing the bruises with her fingertips from her palm to her wrist, and twice around to the dorsum of her forearm.

This, however, is evidently not a persistent form, because I have seen a specimen from the same island in which the red portion of the upper parts is grizzled and much of the same tint as Malayan individuals, except in the mesial line of the neck and back, where the colour is rich red-brown extending along the dorsum of the tail for about three inches.

When a babe the patient had, on the dorsum of the little finger, a small nevus, which was quiescent for many years.

Rhodani constituta, quae in Orientis prospectum tabulatum pontem per nuncupati fluminis dorsa transmittit.

We were waiting for the Soils Dorsa train to come and swift us away to our planums, planitias, fossas, and valleys.

Olympians erected a small, remote laboratory in Melas Dorsa, using some of their own money and a bit of land donated by Klein BM.

Melas Dorsa is moderately cratered land, cut from the south by shallow canyons, and swept by low dunes.

Melas Dorsa, no stations within four hundred kilometers of the lab, and Charles warned me there would be few amenities.

Flying over Solis Dorsa, avoiding the edge of a thin but wide dust storm, I experienced a quick shiver of unease.

From this budget came money to build a larger laboratory in Melas Dorsa, for research on constructing larger versions of tweaker mirror matter drives.

Melas Dorsa laboratory and decided that it could never be occupied again.

Melas Dorsa with extraordinary cunning and efficiency, first sending small units into the deserted station to reconnoiter and knock out com, then big destructors.