a. Phys.; also antorbital. [f. ANTE- + ORBIT, eyesocket + -AL 1.] Situated in front of the eyes.
1839–47. Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 269/1. The ant-orbital foramen.
1880. Günther, Fishes, 36. The Eye divides the head into the ante-orbital and post-orbital portion.
1881. Owen, in Nature, XXIV. 499/1. These ‘antorbital nostrils,’ as they are termed.
