anterodorsal

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From antero- +‎ dorsal.

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anterodorsal (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) in front (at the head end) and toward the back (side nearest the spine)
    • 1978, Robert Vernon Kesling, ‎Ruth B. Chilman, Ostracods of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation:
      The difference between the kloedenellids and the geisinids, as defined, is the development of an anterodorsal process in the former.

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