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Definition of Postaxial
1. a. Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.
Definition of Postaxial
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Postaxial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postaxial
Literary usage of Postaxial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An introduction to the osteology of the mammalia: Being the Substance of the by William Henry Flower (1876)
"... as in the ordinary position of quadruped Mammals The postaxial side is external.
G the humerus in the same position as in E, but the fore-arm r. tated, ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"He has concluded also that the most distal parts of the preaxial border were
supplied from the lower of the four lumbar nerves, and of the postaxial border ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"He has concluded also that the most distal parts of the preaxial border were
supplied from the lower of the four lumbar nerves, and of the postaxial border ..."
4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"In Raia, yet further expansion is obtained by the separation of the axial and
postaxial cartilages and the interpolation of postaxial rays between them. ..."
5. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"On the postaxial side there is a triangular cartilage (Mt\ wide distally, ...
Twelve postaxial rays are articulated with the wide distal edge of this ..."
6. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Schäfer, Johnson Symington, Thomas Hastie Bryce (1909)
"Thus, the upper nerves are distributed along the pre-axial side of the limb, and
the lower nerves along the postaxial side, while the intermediate nerves ..."
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