anterior to

The centre of the cannula was 4.5 mm lateral to the midline, and the posterior edge of the cannula was ~0.1 mm anterior to the transverse sinus.

"We tried to take a real close look in terms of his whole body anatomy and bio mechanically. We thought maybe there were some ways we could re-program his posture and muscle distribution on his body — posterior and anterior — to allow him to change the way his feet work and hit the ground. "There are some small adjustments we can make to assure it won't happen again, it won't become a chronic thing.

Adult American crocodiles have a distinctive hump along the midline of the snout, anterior to the eyes, and their irregular and slightly asymmetrical arrangement of dorsal armour is also distinctive.

In some images, it’s narrow and belt-like and restricted to the middle part of the body or to the region just anterior to the pelvis.

Now all this relates to a cosmogonic fact, anterior to the creation of man.