Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- From the front to the back; fore and aft.
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- adverb biology Along the
anteroposterior axis
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tainotherium differs from other West Indian species in possessing a large femoral head, a proximally angled femoral neck, a short greater trochanter and a medially positioned lesser trochanter unconnected by an intertrochanteric crest, and a transversely flattened, anteroposteriorly bowed shaft lacking well-defined ridges.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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The first case (Fig. 72) was a paralytic idiot of thirty-nine, whose cranial development was small in proportion to the size of the face and body; the cranium was oxycephalic; the scalp was lax and redundant and the hair thin; there were 13 furrows, five on each side running anteroposteriorly, and three in the occipital region running transversely.
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To show how minute some of the feet of the Chinese women are, Figure I. of the accompanying plate (Plate 8), taken from a paper by Kenthughes on the ` ` Feet of Chinese Ladies '' 14.185 is from a photograph of a shoe that measured only 3 1/4 inches anteroposteriorly.
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The first case was a paralytic idiot of thirty-nine, whose cranial development was small in proportion to the size of the face and body; the cranium was oxycephalic; the scalp was lax and redundant and the hair thin; there were 13 furrows, five on each side running anteroposteriorly, and three in the occipital region running transversely.
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"Feet of Chinese Ladies" is from a photograph of a shoe that measured only 3 1/4 inches anteroposteriorly.
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Figure II. is a reproduction of a photograph of a foot measuring 5 1/2 inches anteroposteriorly, the wrinkled appearance of the skin being due to prolonged immersion in spirit.
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Dorsally, the paradiapophyseal lamina defines the posteroventral margin of a distinct anteroposteriorly elongate anterior chonos on the lateral surface of the prezygapophysis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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The shafts are robust and moderately compressed anteroposteriorly, with elliptical sections.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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Dorsally, the blade is weakly expanded anteroposteriorly, producing a gently concave anterior and posterior margin in lateral view.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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The transverse processes are anteroposteriorly centered over the centrum and project laterally.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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