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postcardinal

postcardinal adjective: posterior to the cardinal vein.

Adjective

postcardinal (not comparable)

  1. posterior to the cardinal vein

Origin of postcardinal

From post- + cardinal.

Questions about postcardinal

What does postcardinal mean?
Postcardinal means posterior to the cardinal vein.
What part of speech is postcardinal?
Postcardinal is an adjective.

Words near postcardinal in the dictionary

  1. postcapture
  2. postcard
  3. postcarded
  4. postcardiac
  5. postcardial
  6. postcardinal
  7. postcarding
  8. postcardiotomy
  9. postcardioversion
  10. postcardish
  11. postcardlike

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