Postcranium

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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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"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."

Etymology

From post- + cranium.

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