Tom has a posterior hip dislocation.
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Posterior
/pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
Synonyms for "posterior" (137 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (41)
Related words (68)
Noun(22 words)
Verb(1 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
4 entriesMore specific
8 entriesbuttocksfollowing eventgluteal regionhindquartersposterior aspectposterior surfacerear endsubsequent chapter
Collocations
7 entriesposterior aspectposterior marginposterior partposterior regionposterior sideposterior surfaceposterior view
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
41 translations across 26 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- خَلْفِيّ adj (located towards the rear)
Belarusian
2 entries- за́дні adj (located towards the rear)
- ты́льны adj (located towards the rear)
Bulgarian
1 entries- за́ден adj (located towards the rear)
Catalan
1 entries- posterior adj (located towards the rear)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 尾部的 adj (located towards the rear)
- 後面的 /后面的 adj (located towards the rear)
Czech
1 entries- zadní adj (located towards the rear)
Dutch
2 entries- achterkant adj (located towards the rear)
- rugzijde adj (located towards the rear)
Finnish
4 entries- perempi adj (located towards the rear)
- perä- adj (located towards the rear)
- perällä oleva adj (located towards the rear)
- perässä oleva adj (located towards the rear)
French
1 entries- postérieur adj (located towards the rear)
German
2 entries- Rück- adj (located towards the rear)
- hinterer adj (located towards the rear)
Greek
1 entries- οπίσθιος adj (located towards the rear)
Hindi
1 entries- पीछे adj (located towards the rear)
Italian
1 entries- posteriore adj (located towards the rear)
Japanese
2 entries- 後の adj (located towards the rear)
- 後方の adj (located towards the rear)
Korean
2 entries- 뒤의 adj (located towards the rear)
- 후부의 adj (located towards the rear)
Macedonian
1 entries- заден adj (located towards the rear)
Polish
2 entries- tylny adj (located towards the rear)
- zadni adj (located towards the rear)
Portuguese
1 entries- posterior adj (located towards the rear)
Romanian
1 entries- posterior adj (located towards the rear)
Russian
3 entries- за́дний adj (located towards the rear)
- ты́льный adj (located towards the rear)
- хвостово́й adj (located towards the rear)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zȁdnjī adj (located towards the rear)
- за̏дњӣ adj (located towards the rear)
Slovak
1 entries- zadný adj (located towards the rear)
Slovene
1 entries- zadnji adj (located towards the rear)
Spanish
2 entries- posterior adj (located towards the rear)
- trasero adj (located towards the rear)
Tagalog
1 entries- hulihan adj (located towards the rear)
Ukrainian
2 entries- за́дній adj (located towards the rear)
- ти́льний adj (located towards the rear)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
My father was a good-for-nothing layabout who sat about on his posterior all day and ate potato chips.
Source: tatoeba (4597094)
The patient injured his upper cervical posterior spinal artery by sneezing.
Source: tatoeba (8983252)
The deadlift is a compound movement that trains the gluteus maximus, hamstrings, and other muscles in the posterior chain such as the erector spinae.
Source: tatoeba (10335909)
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