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adj. Placed before or in front.

adj. Occurring before in time; earlier.

adj. Anatomy Located near or toward the head in lower animals.

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

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

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

adj. Before in place.

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

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

adj. Before in time; antecedent.

adj. Before, or toward the front, in place

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.

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

adj. earlier in time

n. a tooth situated at the front of the mouth

"Surgeons perform neck surgery from the front or back, which they refer to as anterior and posterior approaches."

frontal    prefrontal    antecedent   

posterior   

antecedent    previous    preceding    precedent    former    foregoing    fore   

Superior    cheerier    exterior    inferior    interior    superior    ulterior   

posterior    lateral    medial    dorsal    frontal    upper    abdominal    proximal    cervical    rectal