| posterior white column of the spinal cord | The large wedge-shaped fibre bundle lying between the posterior gray column and the posterior median septum, and composed largely of dorsal root fibres. Synonym: funiculus posterior, dorsal funiculus, funiculus dorsalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| posteriority | The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority. Origin: Cf. F. Posteriorite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| posteriorly | Subsequently in time; also, behind in position. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| posteriors | The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| posterity | 1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. "If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity." (Shak) 2. Succeeding generations; future times. "Their names shall be transmitted to posterity." (Shak) "Their names shall be transmitted to posterity." (Smalridge) Origin: L. Posteritas: cf. F. Posterite. See Posterior. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| posterius | Neuter of posterior. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postern | 1. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. "He by a privy postern took his flight." (Spenser) "Out at the postern, by the abbey wall." (Shak) 2. A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Origin: OF. Posterne, posterle, F. Poterne, fr. L. Posterula, fr. Posterus coming after. See Posterior. Back; being behind; private. "The postern door." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| postero | <prefix> A combining form meaning posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side. Origin: L. Posterior Source: Websters Dictionary (21 Jun 2000) |
| posteroanterior | A term denoting the direction of view or progression, from posterior to anterior, through a part. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posteroanterior projection | The standard frontal chest film projection; radiographic skull projection with the petrous ridge superimposed on the orbits. Synonym: posteroanterior projection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posteroclusion | The most effective contact of the molar and bicuspid teeth of both jaws which allows for all the natural movements of the jaws essential to normal mastication and closure. Synonym: posteroclusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posteroexternal | Behind and to one side, specifically to the outer side. Synonym: posteroexternal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posterointernal | Behind and to the inner side. Synonym: posterointernal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posterolateral | Behind and to one side, specifically to the outer side. Synonym: posteroexternal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posterolateral central arteries | The circumflex mesencephalic branches, several small branches of the postcommunical part of the posterior cerebral artery distributed to the lateral posterior part of the midbrain. Synonym: arteriae centrales posterolaterales. (05 Mar 2000) |