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postcranial

postcranial adjective: relating to the postcranium: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).

Adjective

postcranial (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the postcranium: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).
    • postcranial skeleton
    • postcranial anatomy

Origin of postcranial

From post- + cranial.

Words formed from postcranial

Questions about postcranial

What does postcranial mean?
Postcranial means relating to the postcranium: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).
What part of speech is postcranial?
Postcranial is an adjective.

Words near postcranial in the dictionary

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

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