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posterior

/po-steer-ee-er, poh-/US // pɒˈstɪər i ər, poʊ- //UK // (pɒˈstɪərɪə) //

后方,后部,后期,后面的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : situated behind or at the rear of; hinder.
    • : coming after in order, as in a series.
    • : coming after in time; later; subsequent.
    • : Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to or toward the rear or caudal end of the body. pertaining to or toward the back plane of the body, equivalent to the dorsal surface of quadrupeds.
    • : Botany. toward the back and near the main axis, as the upper lip of a flower.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the hinder parts or rump of the body; buttocks.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • A Bayesian regression – with a HFA prior of 2 points – gives a posterior distribution for HFA fairly tightly centered around 0.

  • The first one on that list will strengthen your core while specifically targeting your glutes, and the other two will help your underactive posterior muscles, she explains.

  • Normally, ant eggs have a single zone at their posterior pole that expresses germline genes.

  • He mistakenly called them fungi, but scientists later identified the bright cloud of DNA in the embryo’s posterior pole as bacteria and named them Blochmannia after their discoverer.

  • One system would tell toilet users apart from looking at photos of an individual’s posterior.

  • The posterior metaphor clicked, and she began rapping about being “no size 2.”

  • My friend cannot come to our house and sit his oft-photographed posterior on our sagging cushions.

  • I generally remember school physical education, PE,  as a being a pain in the posterior.

  • As one story goes, Bianca Jagger, impressed, once made a plaster cast of Mara's posterior.

  • Its anterior portion is slender and thread-like, while the posterior portion is thicker (Fig. 112).

  • The upper wings are white, with a posterior broad black subtriangular border, having two or three white spots at the apex.

  • These Cupids must have been erected in the time of the Dutch dynasty, as I judge from the immense posterior developments.

  • In Marmota the baculum is greatly enlarged at the posterior end and forms a shieldlike surface.

  • Position of the supraorbital notch in relation to the posterior notch of the zygomatic plate.