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postorbital
[ pohst-awr-bi-tl ]
adjective
, Anatomy, Zoology.
- located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
postorbital
/ pəʊstˈɔːbɪtəl /
adjective
- anatomy situated behind the eye or the eye socket
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Word History and Origins
Origin of postorbital1
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Example Sentences
Dorsally the origin is bounded by the base of the postorbital process and ventrally by the temporal process.
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Belodon has preorbital vacuities and postorbital vacuities, but the orbit of the eye is never large, as in Pterodactyles.
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This bone is associated with the postorbital, subopercular and lacrimojugal on no. 788.
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The concave anterior margin bears pores of the postorbital part of the infraorbital line.
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It is drawn out laterally into an antorbital process in front of the eye, and a postorbital process behind it.
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