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postorbital

[ pohst-awr-bi-tl ]

adjective

, Anatomy, Zoology.
  1. located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.


postorbital

/ pəʊstˈɔːbɪtəl /

adjective

  1. anatomy situated behind the eye or the eye socket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of postorbital1

First recorded in 1825–35; post- + orbital
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Example Sentences

Dorsally the origin is bounded by the base of the postorbital process and ventrally by the temporal process.

Belodon has preorbital vacuities and postorbital vacuities, but the orbit of the eye is never large, as in Pterodactyles.

This bone is associated with the postorbital, subopercular and lacrimojugal on no. 788.

The concave anterior margin bears pores of the postorbital part of the infraorbital line.

It is drawn out laterally into an antorbital process in front of the eye, and a postorbital process behind it.

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