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cis-
- on this side of: cisalpine
- subsequent to
- Chem. designating an isomer having certain atoms or groups on the same side of a given plane in the molecule: in chemical names, usually printed in italic type and hyphenated and disregarded in alphabetization: cis-butene
See cis- in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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