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Definition of Anterior

1. Noun. A tooth situated at the front of the mouth. "His malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors"

2. Adjective. Of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body.

3. Adjective. Earlier in time.

Definition of Anterior

1. a. Before in time; antecedent.

Definition of Anterior

1. Adjective. Before in place. ¹

2. Adjective. Before or earlier in time; prior to; preceding. ¹

3. Adjective. (anatomy) Nearer the forward end; nearer the head of an animal or the front of a human. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anterior

1. situated in or toward the front [adj]

Medical Definition of Anterior

1. Toward the front or in front of. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anterior

antepenults antepetalous antephialtic antepileptic antepileptics anteport anteportico anteports anteposition antepositions

anteprandial antepredicament antepredicaments anteprostate antepyretic anterior (current term) anterior ampullar nerve anterior antebrachial nerve anterior antebrachial region anterior aphasia

anterior arch of atlas anterior asynclitism anterior auricular anterior auricular branches of superficial temporal artery anterior auricular groove anterior auricular muscle anterior auricular nerves anterior auricular vein anterior axillary fold anterior axillary line

Literary usage of Anterior

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"Muscles of the Leg.—These may be subdivided into three groups : those on the anterior, those on the posterior, and those on the outer side. anterior ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"As the anterior wall is visually more or less efficiently buttressed by the transverse processes of the fourth vertebra, or by post-temporal plates, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"775 Primary, or Idiopathic anterior Crural Neuritis 777 If the word ... The anterior crural (femoral) nerve is the largest arising from the lumbar plexus, ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"BS The Cortical Origin of the Fibres of the anterior Commissure in Man. By DR. N. POPOFF. (Neural. Central- blatt. NO. 22, 1886.) The best authorities are ..."

5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Thus, if the anterior horns in the cervical region are involved, the atrophic ... If the disease be limited to the anterior horns and to the cell-bodies ami ..."

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