preanal
- a word derived from anal.
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Known causes for atypical numbers of preanal scale rows are listed in Table 4.
From Morphological Variation in a Population of the Snake, Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard by Cole, Charles J.
A preanal count at one head length anterior to the anus would have omitted most of the above variation in numbers of preanal scale rows.
From Morphological Variation in a Population of the Snake, Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard by Cole, Charles J.
Colour, grey; sides with small granules; thumb short; chin-shields four; tail rounded with transverse series of small spines; femoral and preanal pores in a continuous line.
From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
The conversion of the posterior end of the simple individual into a sexual region is dispensed with; but from a preanal budding segment a series of sexual buds are produced.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
Pre-, prē, before, in compound words like preanal, preauditory, preaxial, prebasal, prebrachial, precardiac, precentral, precerebral, precloacal, precordial, precoracoid, predentate, pre-esophageal, &c.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
