Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. At the back of the frontal bone; behind the forehead: a postfrontal suture.
- adj. Toward the rear of the frontal lobe.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Situated behind the forehead: as, a post-frontal bone.
- Posterior with respect to certain gyres of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- n. A bone of the skull of sundry vertebrates, situated at the back part of the brim of the orbit of the eye. It is not recognized as a distinct bone in animals above birds. See cut under Ichthyosauria.
- n. Same as postfrontal shield.
Wiktionary
- adj. anatomy Behind the frontal bone
- adj. meteorology Behind a front
- n. anatomy A bone located behind the frontal bone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat.) Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals.
Etymologies
- post- + frontal (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The postfrontal bone is closely joined to the parietal, and has no posterior extension except to the postorbital.”
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“The postorbital is mainly preserved, and it is in con - tact with the frontal (postfrontal) proximally, and sends out no bar posteriorly.”
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“J The fact that the postfrontal and postorbital are not distinct from each other in the Dinosauria with which I am acquainted, makes the determination of the character of the supe - rior arch somewhat difiicult.”
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“There is a superior foramen, however, which is bounded below by the postfrontal bone in front, and the supramastoid be - hind; which are themselves in contact below with the postorbital and the supratem - poral.”
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“The superior arch consists of the supramastoid bone posteriorly, and apparently the postfrontal anteriorly.”
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“Anteriorly this bone joins the postorbital, postfrontal and malar.”
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“In this description and plate the sutural lines snpposed to separate the postfrontal from the postorbital and '' squamosal "are of doubtful existence in the specimen.”
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