posteriorly

[pah-steer-ee-er-lee, poh-steer-ee-er-lee]

adverb

1. in a position that is posterior to or behind something else; at or toward the rear.

Example Sentences

As seen in the video above, a dog curls its tongue posteriorly and plunges it through the water’s surface.

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If you’re wondering which organs we’re looking at here, the heart is obvious while the white mass located further posteriorly is the intestines.

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If intersecting series only, running anteriorly and posteriorly, are requisite for the production of spatial sensation, why are not analogues of them found in all the senses?

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Skull: Larger in every measurement taken; premaxillae extended farther posteriorly to nasals; extension of supraoccipital posterior to lambdoidal suture markedly less; tympanic bullae actually as well as relatively smaller; upper incisors longer and more procumbent.

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The inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane is continuous posteriorly with that of the fauces, and is announced by redness and swelling, inability to breathe freely through the nostrils, and an irritating ichorous discharge.

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