distodorsally

English

Etymology

distodorsal +‎ -ly

Adverb

distodorsally (not comparable)

1. In a distodorsal direction
   • 1934, The American Midland Naturalist, University of Notre Dame, page 674:

     Palpus: femur proximally slender, distally much thickened and curved approximately 45 degrees, extending above surface of carapace a distance equal to 1.5 times the height of the eye tubercle; armed distodorsally with small tubercles, distal ring of tubercles lacking, ventrally unarmed.

   • 2008, Nile Bruce, Advances in the Taxonomy and Biogeography of Crustacea in the Southern Hemisphere, page 166:

     Peropod 3 similar to pereopod 2, but merus additionally with spiniform seta ventrally, and carpus with seven spiniform setae distoventrally and distodorsally.

   • 2010, Michael W. Ross, Diagnosis and Management of Lameness in the Horse:

     Another type of central tarsal bone fracture courses distodorsally from the proximal aspect of the central tarsal bone in the dorsal plane and breaks out of the dorsal cortex of the bone just proximal to the distal articular surface of the central tarsal bone.

Anagrams

• dorsodistally