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 the fruit fly there is a single cluster and the arrangement of genes in the genome is a map of the anterior to posterior body plan.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The bladder lies anterior to the uterus in females, posterior to the pubic bone and anterior to the rectum.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The cuboid bone is anterior to the calcaneus.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The reader of Shakespeare will remember the prodigies anterior to the death of Julius Cæsar when— “The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”
From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)
