postorbital
located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
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How to use postorbital in a sentence
Dorsally the origin is bounded by the base of the postorbital process and ventrally by the temporal process.
Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves | Robert L. MerzBelodon has preorbital vacuities and postorbital vacuities, but the orbit of the eye is never large, as in Pterodactyles.
Dragons of the Air | H. G. SeeleyThis bone is associated with the postorbital, subopercular and lacrimojugal on no. 788.
The concave anterior margin bears pores of the postorbital part of the infraorbital line.
It is drawn out laterally into an antorbital process in front of the eye, and a postorbital process behind it.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
British Dictionary definitions for postorbital
/ (pəʊstˈɔːbɪtəl) /
anatomy situated behind the eye or the eye socket
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