Terry Pratchett

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

English Author

Rhianna Pratchett

The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

English Designer

A. J. Liebling

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

American Journalist

Emily Dickinson

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

American Poet

Imagine an object with a front and back to remember 'posterior' refers to the rear.

Visual Imagery

Use 'posterior' when describing the back position of something in spatial contexts.

Spatial Relationships

'Posterior' as a noun is a polite, often humorous way to refer to the buttocks.

Informal Tone

It’s a less direct and thus politer term for 'buttocks' than some alternatives.

Euphemistic Use

Think of 'posterior' as pointing to what comes later in a sequence of events or time.

Temporal Sequence

It implies events or time periods that are not immediate but follow after a point.

Not Immediacy

In medical contexts, 'posterior' is a precise term for the back side of the body.

Anatomical Direction

It's often used in clinical descriptions, demonstrating a formal and technical tone.

Medical Professional

 but he's using this energy to think about what he has to do to get himself going. And then, that energy is sort of spreading throughout his thought areas. He's not thinking about his family now, and he's getting himself motivated. This is the posterior part, where his muscles are going to be moving,

Ken Kamler: Medical...

 So it actually works. And when we studied the brains of experienced meditators, we found that parts of a neural network of self-referential processing called the default mode network were at play. Now, one current hypothesis is that a region of this network, called the posterior cingulate cortex,

A simple way to break a...

 That's what it's doing. This is true for all mammals -- in humans, it got a lot worse. Humans actually developed the front of the neocortex, called the anterior part of the neocortex. And nature did a little trick. It copied the posterior, the back part, which is sensory, and put it in the front.

Jeff Hawkins: How brain...

 once we know that the device did return a positive reading. This is known as the conditional, or posterior probability, determined once the possibilities have been narrowed down through observation. Many people are confused by the false positive paradox

Can you solve the false...

 in their beer was happening they got yeast out of their environment early brew is literally waited around for yeast cells to fall out of the sky and do their magic Louis Pasteur changed all that they learned for my posterior that yeast was

The Magic Ingredient PIPE...

 just the dividing wall and there we go so of course we can't see that and the dogs don't have that dividing wall so in inside they don't have this what they call anterior and posterior chamber and then the last thing and then my Oh

Safari Live - Day 11 PIPE...

 the back of the eye to the brain this patient has a really interesting finding in the iris we call these posterior cine kiai these little brown spots are adhesions between the iris and the lens they're signs of inflammation

Eyes: The Windows to...

 and the branch hiding Cupid’s posterior were other add-ons. Removing two layers of censorship from the painting, it was finally free to boast its provocative original details. This massive painting called “The Night Watch”

Can you guess what's...

 often sit another method emerged their eye catching chests are thought to play the same role that an attractive posterior plays for many other primate species I say why can't it be both their

An Educational Video...

 When you look at an object, thousands of neurons in your posterior cortex fire. These neurons encode various characteristics of the spiky, fruit, brown, green, and yellow.