postorbital

[pohst-awr-bi-tl]

adjective Anatomy, Zoology.

located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.

Origin of postorbital

First recorded in 1825–35; post- + orbital

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Examples from the Web for postorbital

Historical Examples of postorbital

The postorbital breadth is actually a third more than in fallenda.
American Weasels
E. Raymond Hall
In some specimens, such as KU 91716, the stripes are discrete and extend from the postorbital region nearly to the vent.
Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca
William E. Duellman
Belodon has preorbital vacuities and postorbital vacuities, but the orbit of the eye is never large, as in Pterodactyles.
Dragons of the Air
H. G. Seeley
In Cynognathus the postorbital is fused with the jugal, and the supratemporal with the squamosal, forming apparently one bone.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia
Frank Evers Beddard
The postorbital processes of the frontals are totally wanting—there are not even the traces to be seen in Anomalurus.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia
Frank Evers Beddard

British Dictionary definitions for postorbital

postorbital

adjective

anatomy situated behind the eye or the eye socket

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postorbital in Medicine

postorbital

[pōst-ôr′bĭ-tl]

adj.

Situated behind the socket of the eye.