ventrolateral
adjective
ventrolateral is an adjective meaning “Both ventral and lateral” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-T-R-O-L-A-T-E-R-A-L, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ventrolateral mean?
adjective
- 1
Both ventral and lateral
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ventrolateral
- more ventrolateral comparative
- most ventrolateral superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ventrolateral?
Ventrolateral appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Ventrolateral in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ventrolatéral |
| German | ventrolateral |
| Spanish | ventrolateral |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does ventrolateral come from?
From ventro- + lateral.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).