Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated in front and on or toward the back.

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  • adjective anatomy in front and toward the back

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Examples

  • I swear that I have seen a babirusa skull in which one of the canines cut into and back out of the frontal, just anterodorsal to the orbit.

    The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006

  • All the figures show an anterodorsal view so that, on account of the size of the first pair of legs, only the tops of the second pair appear in Pl. 2, figs. 1, 3, 5.

    Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

  • Shown in anterodorsal view (A) with interpretive line drawing and labels (B).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010

  • Ventrally, the paradiapophyseal lamina forms the anterodorsal margin of a distinct triangular anterior infradiapopyseal fossa.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010

  • A series of prominent pyramidal nodes on the anterodorsal surface of the nasals in the holotype of

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • However, in the old male skulls that I’ve seen (see accompanying images: the woodcut is from Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1869 The Malay Archipelago), the tips of the upper canines begin the anterodorsal part of their curvature a short distance dorsal to the upper surface of the skull, so if they were to continue to grow they would harmlessly curl upwards.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • However, in the old male skulls that I’ve seen (see accompanying images: the woodcut is from Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1869 The Malay Archipelago), the tips of the upper canines begin the anterodorsal part of their curvature a short distance dorsal to the upper surface of the skull, so if they were to continue to grow they would harmlessly curl upwards.

    The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006

  • A stout muscle that connects the anterodorsal wall of the pronotum, to the mediolateral aspect of the prephragama (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Richard P. Berry et al. 2010

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