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 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
In the lateral aspect of the frontal lobe, just anterior to the region of the motor cortex associated with the head and neck, is Broca’s area.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The bladder lies anterior to the uterus in females, posterior to the pubic bone and anterior to the rectum.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Now, you will observe, that all that I have been relating is referred to an age quite anterior to the crusades, or to any movement of the west into the east.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
