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Anteroposterior vs Anteroposteriorly - What's the difference?

anteroposterior | anteroposteriorly |

Anteroposteriorly is a derived term of anteroposterior.



As an adjective anteroposterior

is anterior to posterior; front-to-back.

As an adverb anteroposteriorly is

along the anteroposterior axis.

anteroposterior

English

Alternative forms

* antero-posterior

Adjective

(-)
  • (anatomy) Anterior to posterior; front-to-back.
    • anteroposterior movement
  • * 2002 , Robert Dudley, The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution (ISBN 0691094918), page 43:
    • also effects the fore-aft (anteroposterior ) wing motions known as promotion and remotion.
  • (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the relation between anterior and posterior.
    • the anteroposterior axis

    Synonyms

    * AP

    Derived terms

    * anteroposteriorly * anteroposteriority * anteroposterior axis

    Coordinate terms

    * posteroanterior * dorsoventral * lateral * mediolateral * proximodistal * vertical

    See also

    * (Anatomical terms of location)

    anteroposteriorly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (biology) Along the anteroposterior axis
  • * {{quote-book, 1959, Fred Albert Mettler, The Medical Sourcebook citation
    • , passage=The nonpregnant uterus has the shape of a pear, compressed anteroposteriorly and bent forward upon its neck.}}

    Coordinate terms

    * laterally