What is "posteriorly"

Usage examples of "posteriorly".

After traversing the heart the ball had penetrated the diaphragm, wounded the omentum in several places, and become lodged under the skin posteriorly between the 9th and 10th ribs.

In this tree-toad there is a long black lateral line running posteriorly from the tympanum and above it a shorter line just as in the drawings.

The inter-orbital portion of the skull is narrower anteriorly and posteriorly, and the muzzle is narrow at the base, and of nearly equal breadth throughout.

Fournier knew of a man whose urethra opened posteriorly who was the father of four children.

I easily recognized the lower edge of a hard metallic substance at a depth of about one inch posteriorly from the orifice of the sinus.

The ball entered the right shoulder, immediately over the suprascapular notch, passed superficially upward and forward into the neck, wounding the esophagus posteriorly at a point opposite the thyroid cartilage, and lodged in the left side of the neck.

The bar had entered posteriorly between the 9th and 10th ribs of the left side, and had traversed the thorax in an upward and outward direction, coming out anteriorly between the 5th and 6th ribs, about an inch below and slightly external to the nipple.

Taylor above the heart, passing out lower down posteriorly, and then imbedded itself in the deck.

In its course the lightning traveled down the clothes, tearing them posteriorly, and completely stripping the patient.