posterior

Example Sentences

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Scientists have long proposed, including Sur's colleague Earl K. Miller at MIT, that the prefrontal cortex can guide the activity of more posterior areas of the brain.

From Science Daily

To sleep, Ms. Dayyani cut a hole in a lawn chair that her posterior could fit into, while also keeping her breasts lifted.

From New York Times

After 45 minutes, I was choosing to stand up when stopped at traffic lights to give my poor posterior a rest.

From The Verge

The second 11-hour operation left Jason with posterior fossa syndrome, a common side effect of the procedure.

From BBC

Just in front of it lies the polychate worm version of the apical meristem in plants: a place where stem cells continuously generate new body parts called the posterior growth zone.

From Scientific American