posterior meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

posterior

adj

UK /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/ · US /poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/

Etymology Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).

› Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the…

Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.

Anatomy, Biology, Botany, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.

Formal Following in order or in time.

Derived terms: 52 terms
anteroposterior, apicoposterior, centroposterior, distoposterior, dorsoposterior, duplicitas posterior, frontoposterior, inferoposterior, lateroposterior, long posterior ciliary artery, medioposterior, mentoposterior, mesioposterior, midposterior, nonposterior, occipitoposterior, posterior auricular artery, posterior auricular muscle, posterior cerebral artery, posterior chamber, posterior cingulate cortex, posterior communicating artery, posterior cricoarytenoid muscle, posterior cruciate ligament, posterior ethmoidal artery, posterior inferior cerebellar artery, posteriorisation, posterioristic, posteriority, posteriorization, posteriorize, posteriorly, posterior mal, posterior malleolus, posteriormost, posterior naris, posteriorness, posterior probability, posterior scalene muscle, posterior spinal artery, posterior superior alveolar artery, posterior triangle, posteriorward, postero-, posterio-, proximoposterior, sacroposterior, short posterior ciliary artery, sinistroposterior, subposterior, superoposterior, ventroposterior
Related terms: auricularis posterior, post-, postical, posticous

posterior

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).

Euphemistic, Humorous, Sometimes The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.

Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:

Mathematics, Sciences The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).