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 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
Anterior to the talus is the navicular bone, and anterior to this are the medial, intermediate, and lateral cuneiform bones.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Fourteen years anterior to the researches of Koch, Hering, Swan and Biegler availed themselves, as a homœopathic remedy, of the maceration of tuberculous lungs, and of the sputa of tuberculous subjects.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
