English Explanatory Dictionary

postcranium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

postcranium postcrania

Etymology

From post- + cranium.

Related words

pericranium

Derived words

postcranial postcranially
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