What's the difference between posterior and rear?

Posterior


Definition:

  • (a.) Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
  • (a.) Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.
  • (a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
  • (a.) On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
  • (2) The 38 control fetuses had normal-appearing posterior fossae.
  • (3) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
  • (4) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
  • (5) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (6) These cases show that an examination of the whole neuraxis is as important in patients with midline posterior fossa cysts as it is in patients with developmental syringomyelia or Chiari I malformation.
  • (7) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
  • (8) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
  • (9) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
  • (10) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
  • (11) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (12) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
  • (13) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
  • (14) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
  • (15) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
  • (16) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
  • (17) The observation that phase reversals did not occur in area 29, together with the low incidence of phasic (rhythmic) theta-on cells, suggests that the posterior cingulate cortex does not independently generate type 2 theta.
  • (18) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
  • (19) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (20) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.

Rear


Definition:

  • (adv.) Early; soon.
  • (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
  • (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
  • (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
  • (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
  • (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
  • (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
  • (v. t.) To lift and take up.
  • (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
  • (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
  • (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up.
  • (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
  • (2) Laboratory-reared Ixodes scapularis Say, Amblyomma americanum (L.), and Dermacentor variabilis (Say) were fed on New Zealand white rabbits experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (JDI strain).
  • (3) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
  • (4) Maternal age had a significant effect (P less than .05) on live body weights of broilers reared either separately or intermingled.
  • (5) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
  • (6) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
  • (7) Infected ticks were reared from larvae feeding on each of 11 rabbits taken from the same site.
  • (8) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
  • (9) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
  • (10) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
  • (11) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
  • (12) This measure was significantly greater by 17.2% in chicks trained for 140 min than in dark-reared controls.
  • (13) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
  • (14) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
  • (15) In contrast, when hamsters reared under LD conditions at 25 degrees C for 12 weeks were transferred to SD, testicular regression was associated with a decrease in plasma testosterone and the total LH binding per two testes and an increase in LH binding per unit testicular weight.
  • (16) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
  • (17) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
  • (18) There were no significant differences in the adrenal weights of males or females, but females reared by bisexual pairs had larger absolute and relative adrenals than females reared in populations.
  • (19) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
  • (20) In cats that viewed lines of the same orientation with both eyes during rearing, a substantially smaller proportion of units were selective for orientation; the preferred orientations of these units also tended to match the orientation to which the cats had been exposed.