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retroorbital

retroorbital adjective: behind the orbit of the eye.

Adjective

retroorbital (not comparable)

  1. Behind the orbit of the eye
    • RNAi is effective in protecting mice from influenza infection both when administered through retroorbital injection [54] or intranasally [62].2015, John B. Presloid, Isabel S. Novella, Andrew Mehle, “RNA Viruses and RNAi: Quasispecies Implications for Viral Escape”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI

Origin of retroorbital

From retro- + orbital.

Questions about retroorbital

What does retroorbital mean?
Retroorbital means behind the orbit of the eye.
What part of speech is retroorbital?
Retroorbital is an adjective.

Words near retroorbital in the dictionary

  1. retronymously
  2. retronyms
  3. retronymy
  4. retroocular
  5. retrooperative
  6. retroorbital
  7. retroorbitally
  8. retroorbitary
  9. retropack
  10. retropackage
  11. retropackages

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