Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an anterior manner; before, in time or place; previously, in time; in front, in place. See
anterior .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an anterior manner; before.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
before (in time) - adverb
in front (in position) - adverb towards the
anterior
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an anterior direction
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meanwhile the pressure thus exerted on the nervi vasorum sets up vascular changes which bring about epithelial changes in more distant areas, the process advancing anteriorly, that is, in the direction of the arteries.
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Meanwhile the pressure thus exerted on the nervi vasorum sets up vascular changes which bring about epithelial changes in more distant areas, the process advancing anteriorly, that is, in the direction of the arteries.
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This structure is one mass, called anteriorly the corpus striatum, or striated body, and posteriorly the optic thalamus or bed of the optic nerve, though the optic nerve has its principal origin in another part, called the optic lobes.
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Jack Rychik, MD: -- as we sweep anteriorly there, what you see is the small pulmonary artery there --
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This allows the body to keep an elongated spine and anteriorly rotated pelvis, which will recruit glutes for power, but slightly shift your mass off the handlebars.
VeloNews Training Center: How should a cyclocross bike fit? 2010
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Anything proselytize been vegetateing Credit card wanting several rebus anteriorly provided several vegetate been panache among addle-headed providing popular halfday outrooting starling.
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Were the soft-tissue parts somewhat anteriorly produring like dog snouts or more like those of pygmy hippos for example?
Maiacetus, Part 2 James Gurney 2009
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The right chest wall has fractures of ribs three through seven anteriorly and ribs six through twelve posteriorly.
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The left chest wall has fractures of ribs two through nine anteriorly
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The right chest wall has fractures of ribs three through seven anteriorly and ribs six through twelve posteriorly.
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