postorbital
/pohst-awr-bi-tl/US // poʊstˈɔr bɪ tl //UK // (pəʊstˈɔːbɪtəl) //
眶后,眶后部,眶后区,眶内后
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Anatomy, Zoology.
- : located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
Examples
Dorsally the origin is bounded by the base of the postorbital process and ventrally by the temporal process.
Belodon has preorbital vacuities and postorbital vacuities, but the orbit of the eye is never large, as in Pterodactyles.
This 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.
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