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postmastoid

postmastoid adjective: posterior to the mastoid process.

Adjective

postmastoid (not comparable)

  1. posterior to the mastoid process

Origin of postmastoid

From post- + mastoid.

Words that rhyme with postmastoid

Questions about postmastoid

What does postmastoid mean?
Postmastoid means posterior to the mastoid process.
What part of speech is postmastoid?
Postmastoid is an adjective.

Words near postmastoid in the dictionary

  1. Postmaster Generals
  2. postmasters
  3. postmasters general
  4. postmastership
  5. postmasterships
  6. postmastoid
  7. postmatch
  8. postmaterial
  9. postmaterialism
  10. postmaterialist
  11. postmaterialistic

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