Definition of "anteriorly" []

• Before (in time) (adverb)
• In front (in position) (adverb)
• Towards the anterior (adverb)

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• "Meanwhile the pressure thus exerted on the nervi vasorum sets up vascular changes which bring about epithelial changes in more distant areas, the process advancing anteriorly, that is, in the direction of the arteries."
• "This structure is one mass, called anteriorly the corpus striatum, or striated body, and posteriorly the optic thalamus or bed of the optic nerve, though the optic nerve has its principal origin in another part, called the optic lobes."
• "Jack Rychik, MD: -- as we sweep anteriorly there, what you see is the small pulmonary artery there --"