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  • adjective anatomy Situated behind the orbit or the eye.

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Examples

  • She learns what her pain is called -- "retro-orbital," "holocranic" -- but lives with what it is: inescapable, grueling, disabling, punishing.

    When Pain Comes to Stay 2009

  • - Animal handling experience, intravenous, intra-peritoneal, supra-orbital and sub-cutaneous dosing, bleeding (retro-orbital, submandibular and cardiac puncture)/surgical skills/tissue procurement and processing, necropsy, pathology and histology is necessary.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • Blood was obtained via retro-orbital bleeding of anesthetized mice, or spleens and lymph nodes were removed from euthanized animals, homogenized, and passed through a 40 uM filter to create

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ryan M. O'Connell et al. 2010

  • Blood samples were collected by retro-orbital plexus puncture at week 1, 2 and 5 after immunization, and both sera and lung homogenates were obtained at day 4 after challenge infections.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Fu-Shi Quan et al. 2010

  • Blood samples were collected by retro-orbital plexus puncture at week 1, 2 and 5 after immunization, and both sera and lung homogenates were obtained at day 4 after challenge infections.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Fu-Shi Quan et al. 2010

  • Blood samples were collected by retro-orbital plexus puncture at week 1, 2 and 5 after immunization, and both sera and lung homogenates were obtained at day 4 after challenge infections.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Fu-Shi Quan et al. 2010

  • - Animal handling experience, intravenous, intra-peritoneal, supra-orbital and sub-cutaneous dosing, bleeding (retro-orbital, submandibular and cardiac puncture)/surgical skills/tissue procurement and processing, necropsy, pathology and histology is necessary.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • Blood samples were collected by retro-orbital plexus puncture at week 1, 2 and 5 after immunization, and both sera and lung homogenates were obtained at day 4 after challenge infections.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

  • After anesthetizing the animals with diethylether, blood samples were taken from the retro-orbital sinus.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alexander Garthe et al. 2009

  • As a part of this sickness-induced emaciation, the quantity of peri and retro-orbital fat (fat around and behind the eyeball) decreases.

    Stabroek News 2009

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