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posterior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Posterior may
refer to:
Posterior (anatomy), the end of an
organism opposite to
anterior Buttocks...
- 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
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...
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Posterior cortex usually means the
posterior (back) part of the
complete cerebral cortex and
includes the occipital, parietal, and
temporal cortices. In...
- In ophthalmology, the
posterior pole is the back of the eye,
usually referring to the
retina between the
optic disc and the macula.
Fundus (eye) C****in...
- The term
posterior horn (also
dorsal horn,
posterior cornu,
dorsal cornu) may
refer to:
Posterior horn of
lateral ventricle in the brain,
which p****es...
- The
posterior probability is a type of
conditional probability that
results from
updating the
prior probability with
information summarized by the likelihood...
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Posterior tibial artery The
posterior compartment of the leg is
supplied by the
tibial nerve. It
contains the
plantar flexors:
Superficial posterior compartment...
