postorbital

[ pohst-awr-bi-tl ]

/ poʊstˈɔr bɪ tl /

adjective Anatomy, Zoology.

located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.

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Origin of postorbital

First recorded in 1825–35; post- + orbital

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Examples from the Web for postorbital

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
The bodies are moderately elongate, not eel-shaped, and the palato-quadrate articulates with the postorbital part of the skull.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)|David Starr Jordan
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
A process from the jugal meets the postorbital process of the frontal completing the postorbital bar.
The Vertebrate Skeleton|Sidney H. Reynolds

The supratemporal is thus wedge-shaped and located between the parietal and the postorbital.
A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas|Theodore H. Eaton

British Dictionary definitions for postorbital

postorbital

/ (pəʊstˈɔːbɪtəl) /

adjective

anatomy situated behind the eye or the eye socket

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Medicine definitions for postorbital

postorbital

[ pōst-ôr′bĭ-tl ]

adj.

Situated behind the socket of the eye.