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
A woman at the bar alleged he made sexual comments and “touched her posterior.”
From Seattle Times
The Kraken can pretty much eliminate the Predators as a distant pain in their posterior roughly a week and a half from now.
From Seattle Times
He underwent surgery in late March to repair a posterior tear in his labrum and remove a cyst under his rotator cuff.
From Seattle Times
Minor league catcher Ben Rortvedt had surgery Wednesday for an aneurysm of the posterior artery near his left shoulder.
From Seattle Times
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