a. Phys.; also antorbital. [f. ANTE- + ORBIT, eyesocket + -AL 1.] Situated in front of the eyes.

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1839–47.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 269/1. The ant-orbital foramen.

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1880.  Günther, Fishes, 36. The Eye divides the head into the ante-orbital and post-orbital portion.

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1881.  Owen, in Nature, XXIV. 499/1. These ‘antorbital nostrils,’ as they are termed.

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