In a direction or manner that proceeds from front to back or along the front-to-back axis.
From 'anteroposterior' with adverbial suffix '-ly'. Forms the adverbial version of the directional adjective.
When a radiologist describes a measurement taken 'anteroposteriorly,' they're specifying the exact direction of measurement—it matters because some dimensions shrink when viewed from different angles!
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