Usually means: Drainage from nose to throat.
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  1. postnasal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. postnasal: Collins English Dictionary
  3. postnasal: Wordnik
  4. postnasal: Wiktionary
  5. postnasal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. postnasal: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. postnasal: Dictionary.com
  8. postnasal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. postnasal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. postnasal: Medical dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (postnasal)

▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or located near the posterior of the nasal cavity.
▸ noun:  The posterior half of a divided nasal scale.

Similar:
nasopharyngeal, nasal, sinonasal, nasoral, nasosinusal, nasofacial, rhinal, sinusonasal, nasopalatine, oronasal, more...

Opposite:
pre-nasal, anterior nasal

Phrases:
postnasal drip, postnasal drips, more...

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Similar:
nasopharyngeal, nasal, sinonasal, nasoral, nasosinusal, nasofacial, rhinal, sinusonasal, nasopalatine, oronasal, more...

Opposite:
pre-nasal, anterior nasal

Phrases:
postnasal drip, postnasal drips, more...



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