postorbital

American  

[pohst-awr-bi-tl] / poʊstˈɔr bɪ tl /

adjective

Anatomy, Zoology.

1. located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.

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postorbital British  

/ pəʊstˈɔːbɪtəl /

adjective

1. anatomy situated behind the eye or the eye socket

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Etymology

Origin of postorbital

First recorded in 1825–35; post- + orbital

Example Sentences

Glenn, never one to sit long on his laurels, seems to have found a way to fill his postorbital time.

From Time Magazine Archive

The supratemporal is thus wedge-shaped and located between the parietal and the postorbital.

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

Available cranial measurements are: zygomatic breadth, 12.6 mm; breadth of braincase, 10.7 mm; postorbital breadth, 4.3 mm; rostral breadth, 7.4 mm; length of maxillary toothrow, 9.1 mm; length of mandibular c-m3, 10.0 mm.

From Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country by Jones, J. Knox

It arises immediately in front of the pineal foramen from the confluence of bilateral ridges that extend posteriorly and medially from the base of the postorbital bars.

From The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles by Fox, Richard C.

Width of the postorbital process at base.—The postorbital process is broader at the base in the subgenus Eutamias and in the genus Tamias than in most species of the subgenus Neotamias.

From Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks by White, John A.