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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

postcranial en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English cranial English postcranial From post- + cranial.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to the postcranium: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).
    • postcranial anatomy
    • postcranial skeleton

Deriveds

postcranially

Relateds

precranial · pericranial