See Also: Posterior(medicine)
posterior(dictionary)
Posterior(health)
posterior nephrectomy(medicine)
posterior uveitis(medicine)
posterior urethritis(medicine)
posterior part(medicine)
posterior urethra(medicine)
posterior centriole(medicine)
posterior cells(medicine)

posterior (iou)



posterior noun & adjective. E16.
[Latin, compar. of posterus following, future, from post after: see -IOR.]
A. noun.
In pl. Those who come after; descendants, posterity. Now rare or obsolete. E16.
Sir W. Scott Neither he, nor his posteriors from generation to generation, shall sit upon it ony mair.
The later part. joc. rare. L16-E17.
sing. & (now rare) in pl. The buttocks. E17.
S. Beckett The sensation of a chair coming together with his drooping posteriors at last was so delicious. T. Callender Jerome felt the whip..stinging into his posterior.
b. adjective.
Later, coming after in time, series, or order; subsequent (to). Opp. prior. M16.
posterior probability Statistics the probability that a hypothesis is true calculated in the light of relevant observations.
C. Lyell Proofs of the posterior origin of the lava. R. G. Collingwood The sensum is here not prior but posterior to the emotion.
Chiefly Anatomy. Situated at the back; hinder; situated behind or further back than something else. Opp. anterior. L16.
posteriorly adverb (a) (chiefly Anatomy) in a posterior position; behind; (b) at a later time, subsequently: L16.
posteriormost adjective (chiefly Biology) in the furthest back position, nearest to the posterior E20.