ventriduct

English

Etymology

From ventri- (relating to the belly/ventral) and -duct (from the Latin ducere, meaning to "lead" or "draw").

Verb

ventriduct (third-person singular simple present ventriducts, present participle ventriducting, simple past and past participle ventriducted)

  1. (veterinary medicine, anatomy, zoology) To bring, carry, or draw the head of an animal (or another body part) toward the belly or the lower (ventral) surface.
    • 1886, Simon Henry Gage, Notes on Histological Methods Including a Brief Consideration of the Methods of Pathological and Vegetable Histology and the Application of the Microscope to Jurisprudence‎[1], page 6:
      To obtain the white blood-corpuscles, pith a Necturus. To do this […] ventriduct the head, and press the thumb nail quite firmly against the dorsal side nearly opposite
    • 1871, Burt Green Wilder, Collected Reprints Volume 1‎[2], page 425:
      Ventriduct the tip of the mandible still father, and dissect off the muscles…
    • 1882, Burt Green Wilder & Simon Henry Gage, Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat An Introduction to Human, Veterinary, and Comparative Anatomy‎[3], pages 377-379:
      ... the roof of the skull should be removed with nippers. In doing this, ventriduct the head and insert one blade of the nippers into the foramen magnum…

Antonym

  • dorsiduct
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