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postorbital

[pohst-awr-bi-tl]
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adjective Anatomy, Zoology.
  1. 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

Historical Examples

  • 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.

  • 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 postorbital processes of the frontals are totally wanting—there are not even the traces to be seen in Anomalurus.

British Dictionary definitions for postorbital

postorbital

adjective
  1. anatomy situated behind the eye or the eye socket
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postorbital in Medicine

postorbital

(pōst-ôr′bĭ-tl)
adj.
  1. Situated behind the socket of the eye.
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