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Definition of Postcranial
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located beneath the skull. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Postcranial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postcranial
Literary usage of Postcranial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"Gregory, Peabody, and Price recorded the presence of a more or less complete
postcranial skeleton in OU 1034. This specimen had been only very incompletely ..."
2. Evolution of the Plio-Pleistocene African Suidae by James Michael Harris, Timothy D. White (1979)
"We have not considered postcranial evidence due to the infrequency of association
of postcranial elements with identifiable cranial or dental material. ..."
3. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina by Albert E. Sanders (2002)
"(1995) referred several teeth and postcranial elements in their Ardis Local Fauna
to B. antiquus on the basis of size. Roth and Laerm (1980) also referred a ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"At the outer fore part each postcranial fossa is crossed by the continuous masto-
... At the back boundary of each postcranial fossa is the groove for the ..."
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