- Look up
posterior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Posterior may
refer to:
Posterior (anatomy), the end of an
organism opposite to its head Buttocks...
- The
posterior probability is a type of
conditional probability that
results from
updating the
prior probability with
information summarized by the likelihood...
- The
posterior pituitary (or neurohypophysis) is the
posterior lobe of the
pituitary gland which is part of the
endocrine system. The
posterior pituitary...
- The
posterior chain is a
group of
muscles on the
posterior of the body.
Examples of
these muscles include the hamstrings, the
gluteus maximus, erector...
- The
posterior commissure (also
known as the
epithalamic commissure) is a
rounded band of
white fibers crossing the
middle line on the
dorsal aspect of...
- The
tibialis posterior muscle is the most
central of all the leg muscles, and is
located in the deep
posterior compartment of the leg. It is the key stabilizing...
- The
posterior fontanelle (lambdoid fontanelle,
occipital fontanelle) is a gap
between bones in the
human skull (known as fontanelle),
triangular in form...
- In
human anatomy, the left and
right posterior communicating arteries are small: 471
arteries at the base of the
brain that form part of the
circle of...
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muscle fibers,
namely the
anterior or
clavicular part (pars clavicularis)
posterior or sca****r part (pars sca****ris)
intermediate or
acromial part (pars...
-
provides a
definition of what is at the
front ("anterior"),
behind ("
posterior") and so on. As part of
defining and
describing terms, the body is described...
