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.

From Science Magazine

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.

From Scientific American

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?

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

In several cases there was impaired resonance at the lower margins of the lungs posteriorly, with imperfect bronchial respiration, but without the symptoms of fully-developed pneumonia.

From Project Gutenberg