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
They are arranged in the order in which they are expressed, from anterior to posterior.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
The hypothalamus is inferior and anterior to the thalamus, culminating in a sharp angle to which the pituitary gland is attached.
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
