Postcranial

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to the postcranium: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it). not-comparable

    "postcranial skeleton"

Etymology

From post- + cranial.

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