Rostral may refer to:
Anatomy
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Rostral (anatomical term)
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to describe unambiguously the anatomy of humans and other animals. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position prov ...
, situated toward the oral or nasal region
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Rostral bone
Ceratopsia or Ceratopia ( or ; Ancient Greek, Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivore, herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Asia and Europe, during the Cretaceous Period (geology), Period, although ance ...
, in ceratopsian dinosaurs
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Rostral organ, of certain fish
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Rostral scale
The rostral scale, or rostral, in snakes and other scaled reptiles is the median plate on the tip of the snout that borders the mouth opening. Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). ''Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. Ithaca and London: ...
, in snakes and scaled reptiles
Other uses
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Rostral column, a victory column commemorating a naval military victory
See also
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Rostrum (disambiguation)
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