Posterior (disambiguation)

Posterior (disambiguation)

Posterior may refer to:

* Posterior (anatomy), the end of an organism opposite to its head
** Buttocks, as a euphemism
* Posterior probability, the conditional probability that is assigned when the relevant evidence is taken into account


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