Category: P
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Posticus
Toward the back; behind; coming after.
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Postictal
After a sudden attack or stroke. To the period following a convulsion. Occurring after a sudden attack or stroke, as an epileptic seizure or apoplexy.
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Posthypophysis
Hindpart of pituitary gland. The rear section of the pituitary gland located in the brain.
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Posthumous
After death.
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Posthemorrhagic
After bleeding.
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Postglomerular
On the farther side of the filtering units of the kidney.
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Postganglionic
Behind or below a ganglion, a mass of nerve tissue outside brain and spinal cord. Nerve fibers arising distal to (after) a ganglion; com pare to preganglionic fibers that originate proximal to (before) a ganglion. Describing a neuron in a nerve pathway that starts at a ganglion and ends at the muscle or gland that…
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Postexion
State of bending backward.
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Postexed
Bent backward.
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Posteromedian
On the midline of the back.