Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective At the back of the frontal bone; behind the forehead.
- adjective Toward the rear of the frontal lobe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
postfrontal shield . - Situated behind the forehead: as, a post-frontal bone.
- Posterior with respect to certain gyres of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- noun 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Behind the
frontal bone - adjective meteorology Behind a
front - noun anatomy A
bone located behind thefrontal bone .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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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