Crossword clues for anterior
anterior
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anterior \An*te"ri*or\, a. [L. anterior, comp. of ante before.]
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Before in time; antecedent.
Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius.
--Sir G. C. Lewis. -
Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior.
Note: In comparative anatomy, anterior often signifies at or toward the head, cephalic; and in human anatomy it is often used for ventral.
Syn: Antecedent; previous; precedent; preceding; former; foregoing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, Latin, literally "former," comparative of ante "before" (see ante). Related: Anteriority.
Wiktionary
a. 1 before in place. 2 before or earlier in time; prior to; preceding. 3 (context anatomy English) Nearer the forward end; nearer the head of an animal or the front of a human.
WordNet
n. a tooth situated at the front of the mouth; "his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors" [syn: front tooth]
adj. of or near the head end or toward the front plane of the body [ant: posterior]
earlier in time [syn: prior(a)]
Wikipedia
Anterior was a five-piece metal band from Tredegar, Wales. They were signed to Metal Blade Records, although they were also approached by Manowar's Joey DeMaio. They released two albums through Metal Blade Records: This Age of Silence in 2007 and Echoes of the Fallen in 2011.
In humans, anterior refers to the front of the individual.
Anterior may also refer to:
- Anterior (phonetics), a category of speech sounds
- Anterior (band), a Welsh metal band
- Anterior tense, a relative past tense
Usage examples of "anterior".
The same bullet had apparently penetrated the left side of the abdomen of the elder young lady, midway between the umbilicus and the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium, and had become lost in the abdomen.
Hospital in London there is a congenital tumor which was removed from the anterior mediastinum of a woman of twenty one, and contained portions of skin, fat, sebaceous material, and two pieces of bone similar to the superior maxilla, and in which several teeth were found.
The anterior foot presented a great toe and four smaller ones, but deformed like an example of talipes equinovarus.
At the cessation of the menstrual flow, she generally had a supplementary epistaxis, and on one occasion, when this was omitted, she suffered a sudden effusion into the anterior chamber of the eye.
Liebreich found examples of retinal hemorrhage in suppressed menstruation, and Sir James Paget says that he has seen a young girl at Moorfields who had a small effusion of blood into the anterior chamber of the eye at the menstrual period, which became absorbed during the intervals of menstruation.
Algora speaks of an abdominal pregnancy in which there was spontaneous perforation of the anterior abdominal parietes, followed by death.
At the necropsy the uterus was found adherent to the anterior wall of the abdomen and containing remnants of a putrid fetus with its numerous bones.
The ball entered the abdomen two inches above the crest of the right ilium, a little to the rear of the anterior superior spinous process, and took a downward and forward course.
Pigne speaks of a woman of thirty-eight, who in the eighth month of her sixth pregnancy was gored by a bull, the horn effecting a transverse wound 27 inches long, running from one anterior spine to the other.
The horn entered at the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium, involving the parietes and the uterus.
They were both partially blind in their two anterior eyes, possibly from looking outward and obliquely.
Soon after bunches of white hair appeared on the occiput, and in the succeeding years small patches of decolored hairs were observed also on the anterior and lateral portions of the scalp.
Smith and Jarvis record cases of congenital occlusion of the anterior nares.
Sometimes there is associated with these anomalies curious terminations of the salivary ducts, either through the cheek by means of a fistula or on the anterior part of the neck.
There was only one heel, but the anterior portion consisted of an anterior and a posterior part.