Usually means: Back or rear anatomical position.
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  1. posterior: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. posterior: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. posterior: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. posterior: Collins English Dictionary
  5. posterior: Vocabulary.com
  6. Posterior, posterior: Wordnik
  7. posterior: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Posterior: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. posterior: Wiktionary
  10. posterior: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. posterior: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. posterior: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. posterior: Dictionary.com
  14. posterior (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. posterior: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Posterior (anatomy), Posterior: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Posterior: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. posterior: Rhymezone
  19. posterior, posterior: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. posterior: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. posterior: Free Dictionary
  22. posterior: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. posterior: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. posterior: Legal dictionary

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  1. posterior: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Posterior: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  10. posterior: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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  12. posterior: Medical dictionary
  13. Posterior: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  6. Posterior: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
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  1. posterior: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See posteriorly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (anatomy) Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
adjective:  (medicine) Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
adjective:  (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
adjective:  (formal) Following in order or in time.
noun:  (sometimes euphemistic, sometimes humorous) The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.
noun:  (mathematics) The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).

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