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Posterior

adjective

Located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure.

Coming at a subsequent time or stage. Synonyms: later, ulterior. "The mood posterior to"

noun

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. 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. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

A tooth situated at the back of the mouth. Synonym: back tooth.

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"Posterior" Quotes from Famous Books

... accompanied by notaries. This unctionary did not formerly have the investiture as licentiate of laws, and was assisted by a matriculated lawyer of the royal Audiencia. The creation of the ecclesiastical fiscal was posterior to that of the ecclesiastical courts; and his institution is due to the authority of the pontiffs, who have especially charged said functionaries with the defense of the integrity of marriages, and other ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 28 of 55) • Various

... like the discolorations produced by lichens on leaves. An old entomologist, Mr. Jenner Weir, confessed that he repeatedly pruned off a caterpillar on a bush in mistake for a superfluous twig, for many brownish caterpillars fasten themselves by their posterior claspers and by an invisible thread of silk from their mouth, and project from the branch at a twig-like angle. An insect may be the very image of a sharp prickle or a piece of soft moss; a spider may look precisely like a tiny knob on a branch or a fragment ...

— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson

... provision made in his letter have cautioned the archer against shooting his bolt. But all was quiet, and so Gonzaga remained where he was until something flashed like a bird across his vision, struck sharply against the posterior wall, and fell with a tinkle on the broad stones of the rampart. A moment later the answer from Gian ...

— Love-at-Arms • Raphael Sabatini

... convolution; the center for the muscles and for general sensibility, in the angular gyrus; and the center for the muscles of the trunk, in the frontal lobes. In pure motor aphasia the lesion is in the posterior part of the left third frontal convolution; in cases of pure sensory aphasia, the lesion is in the left ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 • Various

... posterior pair of fins under the body of fishes, corresponding to the hind legs of ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

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