How to Use anterior in a Sentence

anterior

adjective
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  • In Harris' case, the condition involved his left anterior descending coronary artery.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 May 2024
  • However, connections between the default mode network and the anterior hippocampus persisted for up to three weeks, Nichols said.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 July 2024
  • For my surgery, the anterior approach, entry is from the front of the hip.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2021
  • This includes the anterior chains at the front of the body and posterior chains at the back of the body.
    — Tiffany Ayuda, Health, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Then drop it down and then reach over and up with the same arm, creating the stretch for the anterior aspect of the hips.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 17 June 2022
  • In the little skate, the hoxa genes were active in both the posterior and the anterior parts of the fin.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • Put your hands above your head to stretch the psoas muscle, opening up the anterior portion of the hip.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The doctors found a blockage on the left main artery or the left anterior descending artery of the heart.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 July 2021
  • The culprit is a small sliver of tissue, buried deep within the fold running down the top of the brain, called the anterior precuneus.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
  • While seated, rotate slightly to one side to open up the anterior aspect of the chest.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 14 July 2022
  • But even more important is to make sure your pelvis isn’t in an anterior tilt.
    — Jay Dicharry, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The timeline of 6-9 months that has been laid out is usually for an anterior tear.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The abs are part of the anterior kinetic chain that runs up and down your body, which means that engaging the quads helps to activate the abs, too.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The hoods have an opening at the anterior end, and there's a layer of water between the surface of the hoods' interior and the shrimp eyes.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
  • At the moment the ice water sippers got brain freeze, the anterior cerebral artery dilated to let blood rush through the brain.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2012
  • The news of the anterior cruciate ligament tear in Zach LaVine’s left knee, which will sideline the guard for the remainder of the season, seemed to drain the young Wolves.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2017
  • The left-hander needs anterior capsule surgery in his left shoulder, a procedure that will sideline him for the next 12 to 14 months.
    — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 23 June 2017
  • In Jack’s case, the blockage occurred in the left anterior descending artery.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The plyo pushup also requires a greater focus on the serratus anterior muscles—the wing-like muscles along the rib cage.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The paralysis was accompanied by damage to the sheaths of the nerve fibres and by degeneration of the cells of the anterior horns of the spinal cord.
    — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 30 June 1962
  • But Thompson says there is evidence that the man in the grave does not match Dillinger's eye color, fingerprints, anterior teeth, ears and head shape.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Another type goes into the front inside part of the nostril, called the anterior nares, about as far as someone would stick their pinky finger in to pick their nose.
    — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2020
  • David Cronenberg’s new short film opens with a partial, anterior view of a woman’s face.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Medics found a hard, bullet-like object in the woman's right lower anterior thoracic wall below the right breast.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The Oregon group, by pulsing the light at the same frequency found in human theta waves (eight hertz), were able to switch on the neurons in the anterior cingulate cortexes of the mice.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • The researchers attached a 40-gram ultrasonic probe to the anterior fontanelles of six healthy babies.
    — Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The delts have three distinct heads: the anterior (front) delts, the lateral (a.k.a. medial or side) delts, and the posterior (rear) delts.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 June 2023
  • The second was the anterior insula, which is folded into the deep fissure between the parietal and frontal lobes.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
  • This pectoral stretch targets the anterior aspect of the shoulder.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 10 Nov. 2022
  • And then there’s our friend the anterior cingulate gyrus, aka the worrywart center, which is more developed in the female brain.
    — Katty Kay, Time, 20 Apr. 2018

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