anteroposterior
adjective
anteroposterior is an adjective meaning “Anterior to posterior; front-to-back” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-E-R-O-P-O-S-T-E-R-I-O-R, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anteroposterior mean?
adjective
- 1
Anterior to posterior; front-to-back.
anteroposterior movement
- 2
Of or pertaining to the relation between anterior and posterior.
the anteroposterior axis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anteroposterior
- antero-posterior
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anteroposterior?
Anteroposterior appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate anteroposterior?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of anteroposterior: AP.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anteroposterior in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense anterior to posterior:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | ântero-posterior |
| Spanish | anteroposterior |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anteroposterior come from?
From antero- + posterior.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).