ventral

adj 1: toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower

surface of a lower animal); "the ventral aspect of the

human body"; "the liver is somewhat ventral in

position"; "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the

hind limbs of a quadruped" [ant: {dorsal}]

2: (biology) nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ

or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the

adaxial surface" [syn: {adaxial}] [ant: {abaxial}]

REGTRAL

Mentioned in Attribute Grammars, LNCS 323, p.108.

Relational Language. Clark & Gregory. First parallel logic

language to use the concept of committed choice. Forerunner

of PARLOG. "A Relational Language for Parallel Programming",

K.L. Clark et al, Proc ACM Conf on Functional Prog Langs and

Comp Arch, pp.171-178, ACM 1981.