Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Posterior and inferior: used quite generally in anatomical descriptions to locate the position of any part of a structure or organ with reference to the head or anterior end of the body, or with reference to the part of the same structure or organ which may be in advance of and above the level of the part described.
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Examples
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The PA proceeded to make a 1cm postero-inferior incision across the middle of the lesion.
Archive 2009-09-01 1 Dinosaur 2009
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The PA proceeded to make a 1cm postero-inferior incision across the middle of the lesion.
Op Note 1 Dinosaur 2009
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In other cases, however, the changes in the interior of the bone are accompanied by well-marked lesions on its gliding or postero-inferior surface, and by evidences of an osteoplastic periostitis along its edges.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Wedded to this view was the discoverer, Mr. Turner, of Croydon; while Percival commits himself to the statement that it is either the central ridge or the postero-inferior surface of the navicular bone, or the opposed concavity in the perforans tendon, that shows the earliest signs of the disease.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The anterior surface (facies anterior) is somewhat concave; and is directed forward and upward: it is covered by the postero-inferior surface of the stomach which rests upon it, the two organs being separated by the omental bursa.
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It begins in the postero-inferior part of the cavernous sinus, and, passing through the anterior part of the jugular foramen, ends in the superior bulb of the internal jugular vein.
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The second, the short or motor root, is a thick nerve (occasionally divided into two parts) derived from the branch of the oculomotor nerve to the Obliquus inferior, and connected with the postero-inferior angle of the ganglion.
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Above this is a small triangular portion, between the suprarenal and splenic areas, in contact with the postero-inferior surface of the stomach.
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The left gastroepiploic vein (v. gastroepiploica sinistra) receives branches from the antero-superior and postero-inferior surfaces of the stomach and from the greater omentum; it runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach and ends in the commencement of the lienal vein.
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Its antero-superior surface supports the pylorus; its postero-inferior surface is in relation with the commencement of the portal vein; on the right it is grooved by the gastroduodenal artery.
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