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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. 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.