ventriduct

present singular third person ventriducts · participle present ventriducting · participle past ventriducted · past ventriducted

1. anatomyTo bring, carry, or draw the head of an animal (or another body part) toward the belly or the lower (ventral) surface.

   Ventriduct the tip of the mandible still father, and dissect off the muscles…

   1871, Burt Green Wilder, Collected Reprints Volume 1, page 425

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   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

   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, page 6

   ... 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…

   1882, Burt Green Wilder & Simon Henry Gage, Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat An Introduction to Human, Veterinary, and Comparative Anatomy, pages 377-379