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167 words match “POSTER”

POSTANAL a.
Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.
POSTAXIAL a.
Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.
POSTCOMMISSURE n.
A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure. B. G. Wilder.
POSTCORNU n.
The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.
POSTICOUS a.
Posterior.
POSTNARES n.
The posterior nares. See Nares.
POSTOBLONGATA n.
The posterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.
POSTORAL a.
Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.
POSTSPHENOID a.
Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
POSTZYGAPOPHYSIS n.
A posterior zygapophysis.
PRECEDENTIAL a.
precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.
PROCOELIAN a.
front; as, procoelian vertebræ, which have the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex.
PROCTUCHA n.
A division of Turbellaria including those that have an intestine terminating posteriorly.
PROPODIUM n.
The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect. [Written also propodeum.]
PTERYGOID a.
f the human skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two p…
PULVINAR n.
A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
PYCNASPIDEAN a.
Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.
PYGAL a.
Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.
PYGOSTYLE n.
The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebræ, and supports the uropigium.
PYLORUS n.
A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.
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