Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting certain muscular and cutaneous areas in which some of the nerves of supply originate at a more caudal level than in allied species.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of postfix.
  • adjective Subjected to postfixation

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Examples

  • Additionally, kalahe pru would yield two unidentified words while kala hepru yields only one since kala is relatable to Etruscan cala and its postfixed counterpart -cla meaning "of this".

    Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1 2008

  • Unlike the Liber Linteus, where we find for example both postfixed accusative article -cn and -tn, we are supposed to believe that the Tabula Capuana shows a different grammatical pattern that has an odd bias towards the l-genitive of ta rather than ca.

    Deictics on the Tabula Capuana 2008

  • The result of all the investigations of this subject, appears to settle down into the hackneyed truism, that the passive verbs, and the moods and tenses, of some languages, are formed by inflections, or terminations either prefixed or postfixed, and of other languages, by the association of auxiliary verbs, which have not yet been contracted and made to coalesce as _terminations_.

    English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

  • When postfixed to the noun-state of the verb, the compound word thus formed, expresses a continued state of the verbal denotement.

    English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

  • More frequently the fifth nerve is divided between the lumbar and sacral plexuses, and constitutes the nervus furcalis; and when this takes place, the plexus is distinguished as a low or postfixed plexus.

    IX. Neurology. 6d. The Lumbosacral Plexus 1918

  • At first sight the numeral prefix, 6, appears to belong, postfixed, to glyph 23-a-17.

    Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs William Gates 1901

  • Samples were postfixed in 1% phosphate buffered osmium tetroxide, dehydrated through a graded acetone series, and embedded in an Araldite 502/Epon 812 resin.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Richard P. Berry et al. 2010

  • The retinas were postfixed for 30 minutes in the same fixative, washed and incubated in a solution containing 0. 02% NADPH-diaphorase and 0. 04% nitroblue tetrazolium

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaomei Wang et al. 2010

  • The retinas were postfixed for 30 minutes in the same fixative, washed and incubated in a solution containing 0. 02% NADPH-diaphorase and 0. 04% nitroblue tetrazolium

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaomei Wang et al. 2010

  • Tissue was postfixed in 1\% osmium tetroxid in Sörensen's phosphate buffer for 1 h, washed 3 times and dehydrated in ethanol with increasing concentration: 25, 50, 75 and 96\% for 2×10 min respectively and 100\% for 2×15 min.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Krzysztof Kucharz et al. 2009

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