adjective. Placed before or in front.

adjective. Occurring before in time; earlier.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Located near or toward the head in lower animals.

adjective. Located on or near the front of the body in higher animals.

adjective. Located on or near the front of an organ or on the ventral surface of the body in humans.

adjective. In front of and facing away from the axis or stem.

Of place: fore; situated more to the front: the opposite of posterior.

Of time: going before; preceding; antecedent; prior; earlier.

In zoology and zootomy, nearer the head, as opposed to posterior; cephalal, as opposed to caudal; oral, as opposed to aboral: thus, the head is anterior to the neck, which is itself anterior to the trunk and tail.

In human anatomy, situated in front, with respect to that side of the body on which is the face; ventral, as opposed to dorsal; hemal, as opposed to neural: as, the anterior pillars of the pharynx; the anterior walls of the belly; the anterior pillars of the spinal cord.

In botany, in axillary inflorescence, noting the side most distant from the axis and nearest the subtending leaf or bract: as, the anterior side of a flower: otherwise called inferior or lower.

Synonyms See previous.

adjective. Before in time; antecedent.

adjective. Before, or toward the front, in place

adjective. Before in place.

adjective. Before or earlier in time; prior to; preceding.

adjective. Nearer the forward end; nearer the head of an animal or the front of a human.

adjective. of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body

adjective. earlier in time

noun. a tooth situated at the front of the mouth

"The term anterior pole is applied to the central point of the anterior curvature of the bulb, and that of posterior pole to the central point of its posterior curvature; a line joining the two poles forms the optic axis."

posterior  

antecedent  frontal  prefrontal  

Superior  cheerier  exterior  inferior  interior  

abdominal  adjacent  anal  cervical  dorsal  

album  ana  analects  antecedent  antecedent