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postcrania

postcrania is the plural of postcranium.

Meaning of postcranium

Noun

postcranium (plural postcrania)

  1. The portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).
    • Upper half of postcranium with the cerebral plate concave in profile, inferior margin of cerebral plate raised and slightly prominent, lower part of postcranium more or less convex.1878, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 324

Questions about postcrania

What is postcrania the plural of?
Postcrania is the plural of postcranium.

Words near postcrania in the dictionary

  1. postcountercultural
  2. postcounterstained
  3. postcounts
  4. postcoup
  5. postcourse
  6. postcrania
  7. postcranial
  8. postcranially
  9. postcraniotomy
  10. postcranium
  11. postcrash

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