postcranial

Questions

What does postcranial mean?

Relating to the postcranium: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).

Where does postcranial come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English cranial English postcranial From post- + cranial.

How to pronounce postcranial

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