- Look up
posterior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Posterior may
refer to:
Posterior (anatomy), the end of an
organism opposite to
anterior Buttocks...
- The
Matthean Posteriority hypothesis, also
known as the
Wilke hypothesis after Christian Gottlob Wilke, is a
proposed solution to the
synoptic problem...
- 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 fontanelle (lambdoid fontanelle,
occipital fontanelle) is a gap
between bones in the
human skull (known as fontanelle),
triangular in form...
- 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 commissure (also
known as the
epithalamic commissure) is a
rounded band of
white fibers crossing the
middle line on the
dorsal aspect of...
- 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...
- the
posterior descending artery (PDA), also
called the
posterior interventricular artery (PIV, PIA, or PIVA), is an
artery running in the
posterior interventricular...
-
Posterior tibial artery The
posterior compartment of the leg is
supplied by the
tibial nerve. It
contains the
plantar flexors:
Superficial posterior compartment...
- The
posterior cerebral artery (PCA) is one of a pair of
cerebral arteries that
supply oxygenated blood to the
occipital lobe, part of the back of the...
