inferior

Examples

• All

• Remembering that the Sun subtends an angle of only about one degree in the sky, it is easy to see why there is not a transit of Venus every time it is at inferior conjunction: Venus is usually either too low or too high to be seen against the Sun.

  Academic text (2004)

• (n134) First, the Morrison Court concluded that there was no Appointments Clause problem under Article II, Section 2, because the independent counsel was an "inferior officer" and the judiciary had historically shared a certain amount of power to appoint such officers with the president.

  Academic text (1998)

• (n39) Due to the inferior training of Iraqi soldiers, this strategy has proved to be of limited utility.

  Academic text (2007)

• "The great genius had himself brought here in the worst of distress after the whole story with his ear and the harlot and his friend Paul Gauguin, a fine but inferior painter."

  Fiction book (1999)

• Despite its undeniable quality in Mahdia and throughout Tunisia, the art of embroidery is considered vastly inferior to the skill of the weaver.

  Academic text (2004)

• The parathyroid glands were identified prior to ligating any branches of the inferior or superior thyroid arteries.

  Academic text (1996)

• The Supreme Court and scholars can no longer duck this uncomfortable fact: If the independent counsel statute is indeed constitutional (as Morrison held), the independent counsel must be "inferior" to someone.

  Academic text (1998)

• It is only when Venus is at inferior conjunction with Earth (between our planet and the Sun) and Earth is near one of these two points that a Venus transit can occur.

  Academic text (2004)

• They are the results of political and economic systems of oppression that entrap biological parents around the world, whether that be the social stigma against single mothers in Korea, the One Child Policy in China, or women's inferior status or poverty in any country.

  Academic text (2017)

• Mercury, being closer to the Sun than Earth, is classified as an inferior planet.

Antonyms

S

superior

• Specialized

4 9.0

Orbiting the Sun farther than Earth

Compounds

I

inferior vena cava

• Specialized

1 4.6

A large vein that carries blood from the lower body and belly to the heart

I

inferior cerebellar artery

• Specialized

1 6.1

A blood vessel that supplies the lower part of the cerebellum

I

inferior mesenteric artery

• Specialized

1 7.2

A blood vessel that branches from the lower main blood vessel in the belly to supply the large intestine

A

arteria labialis inferior

• Specialized

8.3

A blood vessel that carries blood to the lower lip

I

inferior cerebral vein

• Specialized

8.2

A blood vessel that carries blood from the lower surface of the brain to large channels inside the head

I

inferior cerebral veins

• Specialized

7.7

Small blood vessels under the brain that carry blood into large internal channels

I

inferior colliculus

• Specialized

9.1

A part of the brain that helps process and locate sounds

I

inferior conjunction

• Specialized

9.9

A planet that lies directly between Earth and the Sun in a straight line

I

inferior court

• Specialized

5.6

A court whose decisions a higher court can review and change

I

inferior alveolar artery

• Specialized

7.0

A blood vessel that runs through the lower jaw and carries blood to the lower teeth

I

inferior epigastric vein

• Specialized

6.1

A vein in the lower front of the belly that carries blood toward the groin

I

inferior labial artery

• Specialized

7.0

A blood vessel that carries blood to the lower lip

I

inferior labial vein

• Specialized

7.9

A small blood vessel that carries blood from the lower lip to a vein in the face

I

inferior vocal cord

• Specialized

8.4

A lower fold of tissue in the throat that makes sound when air passes between the two

I

inferior vocal fold

• Specialized

9.0

Lower band of tissue in the throat that makes sound when air passes between the two bands

I

inferior ophthalmic vein

• Specialized

8.1

A vein that drains blood from the lower and inner parts of the eye socket

I

inferior planet

• Specialized

7.6

A planet that orbits closer to the Sun than Earth, like Mercury or Venus

I

inferior pulmonary vein

• Specialized

5.7

A vein that carries blood from the lower part of a lung to the left atrium of the heart

I

inferior rectus

• Specialized

7.2

A muscle in the eye that moves the eyeball down and toward the nose

I

inferior rectus muscle

• Specialized

5.3

A muscle in the eye that moves the eyeball down and in

I

inferior thalamostriate vein

• Specialized

9.9

A small brain vein that drains blood from parts of the thalamus and striatum into the basal vein

I

inferior thyroid vein

• Specialized

6.8

A neck vein that carries blood from the lower thyroid to a large vein near the heart

R

rectus inferior

• Specialized

8.6

A muscle under the eye that moves the eyeball down and toward the nose

S

serratus posterior inferior

• Specialized

9.6

A thin lower back muscle that helps hold the lower ribs steady when you breathe

V

vena epigastrica inferior

• Specialized

9.8

A blood vessel in the lower front of the belly that carries blood to a larger vein in the pelvis

V

vena labialis inferior

• Specialized

9.9

A small vein that carries blood away from the lower lip

V

vena pulmonalis inferior

• Specialized

9.9

A vein that carries oxygen-rich blood from the lower lobe of a lung to the left side of the heart

Surface Forms

Etymology