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postcentral

postcentral adjective: posterior to the central sulcus.

Adjective

postcentral (not comparable)

  1. posterior to the central sulcus

Origin of postcentral

From post- + central.

Words formed from postcentral

Questions about postcentral

What does postcentral mean?
Postcentral means posterior to the central sulcus.
What part of speech is postcentral?
Postcentral is an adjective.

Words near postcentral in the dictionary

  1. postceding
  2. postcellularization
  3. postcementation
  4. postcensal
  5. postcensus
  6. postcentral
  7. postcentrally
  8. postcentrifugation
  9. postcephalic
  10. postcerebellar
  11. postcerebral

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