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How to pronounce posterior in English?

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Synonyms later, ulterior


the mood posterior to.
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Synonyms back tooth
Type of tooth
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Synonyms arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush
Type of body part
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Derivation posteriority

Examples of posterior

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Distinct value signals in anterior and posterior ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
From the nature.com
I've had fallen arches all my life and ruptured my left posterior tibial tendon.
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The anemone attaches to the substrate using the basal disk at its posterior end.
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From the portico a corridor flanked by storerooms reaches a posterior courtyard.
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The downside is that the suspension transmits each road bump to your posterior.
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Henry was held out of the game with a partially torn posterior cruciate ligament.
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This ligament prevents posterior displacement of the tibia relative to the femur.
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Aristotle's posterior analytics is a definitive exposition of the classical view.
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It is a fall of the inferior part of the back, or the whole back and posterior.
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More examples
  • Located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure
  • Buttocks: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
  • Back tooth: a tooth situated at the back of the mouth
  • Later(a): coming at a subsequent time or stage; "without ulterior argument"; "the mood posterior to"
  • (posteriority) the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end
  • (posteriority) following in time
  • Standard anatomical terms of location are employed in science which deal with the anatomy of animals to avoid ambiguities which might otherwise arise. They are not language-specific, and thus require no translation. ...
  • The buttocks; Located behind, or towards the rear of an object; Following in order or in time; Nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds; Next to, or facing the main stem or axis
  • Refers to teeth and tissues towards the back of the mouth (distal to the canines): maxillary and mandibular premolars and molars.