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postcranium

noun

Etymology

From post- + cranium.

  1. borrowed from crānium
  2. prefixed as postcranium — “post + cranium”

Definitions

  1. The portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds,…

    The portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).

    • Upper half of postcranium with the cerebral plate concave in profile, inferior margin of cerebral plate raised and slightly prominent, lower part of postcranium more or less convex.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA