anterior to
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The document they produced was, Beard argued, “essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.”
From Salon • Oct. 21, 2025
In all vertebrate multiple Hox clusters control the development of the body plan and they too show the sequential anterior to posterior arrangement in the genome.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The book lung looks like a book with many pages and is located just anterior to a spiracle in the ventral abdomen.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The greater wing is best seen on the outside of the lateral skull, where it forms a rectangular area immediately anterior to the squamous portion of the temporal bone.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Prosobranchiata, pros-ō-brangk-i-ā′ta, n.pl. an order or sub-class of gasteropods having the gills anterior to the heart.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
