precranial
precranial adjective: before (in front of) the cranium.
Adjective
precranial (not comparable)
- Before (in front of) the cranium
- Posterior to this, the precranial cavity first appears as a dorsal and a ventral opening.2015 October 22, “Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence, Northwestern Venezuela)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin of precranial
From pre- + cranial.
Words that rhyme with precranial
- cranial
- epicranial
- mesocranial
- acrocranial
- basicranial
- brachycranial
- caudocranial
- cerebrocranial
- cervicocranial
- chondrocranial
- circumcranial
- cleidocranial
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- dermatocranial
- dorsocranial
- ectocranial
- exocranial
- hemicranial
- holocranial
- infracranial
- intercranial
- intracranial
- laterocranial
- mediocranial
- nasocranial
- neurobasicranial
- neurocranial
- noncranial
- occipitocranial
- osteocranial
- paracranial
- proximocranial
- pterygocranial
- quadratocranial
- splanchnocranial
- supracranial
- transcranial
- ventrocranial
- viscerocranial
Questions about precranial
- What does precranial mean?
- Precranial means before (in front of) the cranium.
- What part of speech is precranial?
- Precranial is an adjective.
Words near precranial in the dictionary
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