posterior

A friend in her 80s slipped on the stairs to her flooded basement and fell, breaking two posterior ribs and injuring her shoulder.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

To offset that, he pays extra attention to strengthening the posterior, or back, chain of their bodies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

As a parent, the first time I saw one of my sons talk out of their posterior on a subject they knew nothing about, I laughed.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

For example, annelids such as Platynereis dumerilii can regenerate entire parts of their posterior body after injury.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

“At the occipital bone, the posterior base of my skull,” Rachael said.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Today, those same simulated posteriors are essential to making sure new sensors are in good working order.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Those lucky enough to have got their posteriors on the leather seats of ministerial cars all know the situation is bad.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023

Radke examines the bustle, popularized in 1868, a rare historic moment when women opted to increase the appearance of their posteriors to “create the desired gluteal lump.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022

The legion resulting posteriors may protrude into the seawater through natural holes in the sponge and amble along its surface.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 8, 2021

Leg : peea = piya = posteriors, Brumer I. Thigh : tula = turi = knee, Brumer I. Belly : cawara-ny.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by John MacGillivray