Definitions for anterior

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anterior an·te·ri·or

Spelling: [an-teer-ee-er]

IPA: /ænˈtɪər i ər/

Anterior is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 314 anagrams from letters in anterior (aeinorrt).

Definitions for anterior

adjective

1. situated before or at the front of; fore (opposed to posterior).
2. going before in time or sequence; preceding; earlier:
3. Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) articulated in the region extending from the alveolar ridge to the lips; alveolar, dental, or labial.
4. (in animals and embryos) pertaining to or toward the head or forward end of the body.
5. (in humans) pertaining to or toward the front plane of the body, equivalent to the ventral surface of quadrupeds.
6. Botany. on the front side and away from the main axis, as the lower lip of a flower.

Origin of anterior

1535-45; Latin, comparative of ante before, formed on model of posterior

Examples for anterior

Aorta: the anterior, narrow part of the heart, opening into the head.

He makes use of the anterior one, which is the longest and most supple.

It is just cephalad to the anterior end of the pharynx and to the hypophysis.

But that was long ago, so long that it might have happened in an anterior existence.

This I applied over the solar-plexus and to the anterior surface of his body.

The nerves that supply it proceed from the anterior half of the spinal cord.

It may lie above the pubis in the anterior wall of the bladder.

Few of the mouldings of Greek architecture are to be traced to anterior styles.

Frontal: referring to the front of head or anterior aspect of any part.

That action puts a stress in the anterior cruciate ligament.