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anterior-posterior

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  • Homeobox genes play a key role in the morphogenesis of segmental body structures along the primary anterior-posterior body axis including the genitourinary system.

    Urology Division Research 2010

  • The images, proffered by the family of Dr. Leon Krohn, include two standard chest x-rays: an anterior-posterior and a lateral film in separate sale lots, and three images of her lower torso showing instruments and contrast dye.

    Dr. Elaine Schattner: The X-Rays of Others 2010

  • But none of those proofs even reaches to the mutually reinforcing deceptions of (a) the blow out to the right-front in the Zapruder film, (b) the missing right-front in the anterior-posterior X-ray, and (c) the publication of 313 in LIFE magazine with a caption saying that the bullet had entered the back of his head and blown out the right-front -- a caption rewritten twice after breaking the plates.

    Zapruder JFK Film Impeached by Moorman JFK Polaroid 2009

  • The activity of these two centers together define two axes of the limb, the proximo-distal and the anterior-posterior.

    Generic bumps and recycled genetic cascades - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The activity of these two centers together define two axes of the limb, the proximo-distal and the anterior-posterior.

    The Panda's Thumb: July 2006 Archives 2006

  • Multicellular animals come in many shapes and forms but they owe their body organization to the emergence of three design features - the anterior-posterior and dorso-ventral axes, and the three germ layers.

    The Panda's Thumb: December 2005 Archives 2005

  • Multicellular animals come in many shapes and forms but they owe their body organization to the emergence of three design features - the anterior-posterior and dorso-ventral axes, and the three germ layers.

    A few recent papers... - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • The mutated genes responsible for this phenomenon were found to be members of a gene family (bithorax-complex) that controls segmentation along the anterior-posterior body axis (Fig. 3).

    Physiology or Medicine 1995 - Press Release 1995

  • Being square, means having the shoulder ridge and the point of the shoulder at right angles to a general anterior-posterior plane running through the body.

    Military Instructors Manual Oliver Schoonmaker

  • In extending the spinal column, the shoulders must not be raised, but held loosely in normal position and forced back until the points of the shoulders are at right angles with an anterior-posterior plane running through the shoulders.

    Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition 1906

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