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 all vertebrate multiple Hox clusters control the development of the body plan and they too show the sequential anterior to posterior arrangement in the genome.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The patella, or kneecap, is a triangular bone that lies anterior to the knee joint.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
They are referred to as prevertebral because they are anterior to the vertebral column.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
It may have been anterior to the use of fire, for a sound and useful pottery may be made with clay hardened in the sun, as still practised in Egypt and India.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by Arnoux, L.
