postcranium
postcranium noun: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).
Noun
postcranium (plural postcrania)
- 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
- In contrast, in Bronze Age samples cranial traumas are concentrated in males (with 5 of 6 cases in this sample; sexed postcrania are too sparse to analyze), and both cranial and postcranial traumas in the Iron Age are more frequent among males.1997, Debra K. Martin, Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past, page 137
Forms of postcranium
| plural | postcrania |
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Origin of postcranium
From post- + cranium.
Words formed from postcranium
Words that rhyme with postcranium
- cranium
- geranium
- unobtainium
- germanium
- titanium
- uranium
- basicranium
- dermatocranium
- desmocranium
- ectocranium
- intracranium
- neurocranium
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Questions about postcranium
- What does postcranium mean?
- Postcranium means the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).
- What part of speech is postcranium?
- Postcranium is a noun.
- What is the plural of postcranium?
- The plural of postcranium is postcrania.
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