Definition of Postoral

1. a. Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.

Definition of Postoral

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postoral

1. situated behind the mouth [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postoral

postnucleation
postnup
postnups
postnuptial
postobese
postoblongata
postobservation
postobservations
postocular
postoffice
postoffices
postop
postoperative
postoperatively
postops
postoral (current term)
postorbital
postorbitals
postorder
postoutbreak
postovulation
postovulatory
postpaid
postpainterly
postpalatine
postpartisan
postpartisanship
postpartum
postpartum depression

Literary usage of Postoral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... or jaws of the first pair are the most anterior of the postoral appendages. They are large, powerful, and usually consist of three or two segments, ..."

2. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Henry Meyners Bernard, Matilda Bernard, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"466) into the pre- and postoral regions, as follows :— From the anterior and lateral tips of the oral region which stretch to near the apical pole, ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"But in these phases the resemblance to the 2. Long cilia of preoral band (velum). 1. The apical plate. 4. Mouth. 3. Long cilia of postoral band. t. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"I. (i) There are three sections of the body: (a) the preoral lobe, (b) the postoral section (collar) which carries tentacles, arid (c) the posterior or anal ..."

5. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1873)
"(/) The mandibular or first pair of postoral visceral arches are stout continuous rods of cartilage which lie in the first visceral arch behind the mouth. ..."

6. Tablets of anatomy and physiology by Thomas Cooke (1878)
"The first of the postoral set of arches, bars, or plates, is tho lower process of our Is: arch, ... postoral cleft, which is further designated as ..."

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