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
It is located anterior to the trachea and inferior to the larynx.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Anterior to the talus is the navicular bone, and anterior to this are the medial, intermediate, and lateral cuneiform bones.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The nervous system of the embryonic head exhibits three ganglionic masses, anterior to the thoracic ganglionic masses; these three masses subsequently amalgamate and form the sub-oesophageal ganglion, which supplies the trophal segments.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
