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Dorsum

noun

(pl. dorsa)

The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine. Synonym: back.

The back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part).

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... drops off. Among the Battos the same object is reached by small bamboo sticks, between which the prepuce is fastened. In New Caledonia and Tidshi the boys are circumcised in their seventh year. The Tonga Islanders split the prepuce on the dorsum with a piece of bamboo or of shell. In the Marquesas and Sandwich Islands the operation is superintended by ...

— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

Words linked to "Dorsum" : torso, body part, trunk, thoracic vertebra, dorsal, saddle, small, latissimus dorsi, lat, back, body, lumbar vertebra, dorsal vertebra