postaxial

American

[pohst-ak-see-uhl] / poʊstˈæk si əl /

adjective

Anatomy, Zoology.

pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.

postaxial British

/ pəʊstˈæksɪəl /

adjective

situated or occurring behind the axis of the body
of or relating to the posterior part of a vertebrate limb

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Other Word Forms

postaxially adverb

Etymology

Origin of postaxial

First recorded in 1870–75; post- + axial

Example Sentences

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Posteriorly, there is a short, broad expansion resembling the entepicondyle of the humerus, and even more nearly like the postaxial flanges in a crossopterygian fin.

From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)

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