Usually means: Behind the eye socket bone.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. postorbital: Merriam-Webster
  2. postorbital: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. postorbital: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. postorbital: Collins English Dictionary
  5. postorbital: Wordnik
  6. postorbital: Wiktionary
  7. postorbital: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. postorbital: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. postorbital: Dictionary.com
  10. Postorbital: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Postorbital: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. postorbital: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Postorbital: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. postorbital: FreeDictionary.org
  15. postorbital: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. postorbital: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. postorbital: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (postorbital)

▸ adjective:  Behind the orbit of the eye.
▸ noun:  A postorbital bone or scale.

Similar:
postsuborbital, retroorbital, paraorbital, preorbital, retro-orbital, anteorbital, suborbital, superorbital, interorbital, infraorbital, more...

Opposite:
preorbital, anterior to orbit, anterior to eye

Phrases:
postorbital constriction, postorbital bar, postorbital bone, more...

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Similar:
postsuborbital, retroorbital, paraorbital, preorbital, retro-orbital, anteorbital, suborbital, superorbital, interorbital, infraorbital, more...

Opposite:
preorbital, anterior to orbit, anterior to eye

Phrases:
postorbital constriction, postorbital bar, postorbital bone, more...



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