apicoposterior

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Etymology

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From apico- +‎ posterior.

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apicoposterior (not comparable)

  1. apical and posterior
    • 2015 August 6, Hiroaki Kuroda et al., “Lymph Node Metastases and Prognosis in Left Upper Division Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers: The Impact of Interlobar Lymph Node Metastasis”, in PLoS ONE[1], volume 10, →DOI:
      The frequency of #11 involvement was 1.89-fold higher in the anterior segment (12.5%, 15/120) than that in the apicoposterior segment (6.6%, 15/228), but the difference was not significant ( p = 0.06).