anterior
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Two weeks later, a doctor diagnosed Fennell, 53 years old, with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, a condition that leads to sudden, often permanent vision loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Hortiz doesn’t want the Chargers, who devastatingly lost starting center Tyler Biadasz to a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament injury, to be as thin on the offensive line as they were in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Tyler Biadasz suffered a serious injury to his anterior cruciate ligament in practice this week, and the prognosis sounds bleak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
When Rodri returned from an anterior cruciate ligament injury last year, there will have been plenty who wondered whether he would return to the Ballon d'Or-winning levels he had reached at his peak.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The paralysis was accompanied by destruction of the nerve sheaths and by degeneration of the cells of the anterior horns of the spinal cord.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing anterior
Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: ante, anti
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