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
The patella, or kneecap, is a triangular bone that lies anterior to the knee joint.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
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
It is located anterior to the trachea and inferior to the larynx.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Keeping to the valley, on our right are now some huge blocks of tufa, of great interest as part of the ancient Roma Quadrata, anterior to Romulus.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
