Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated behind the temporal region of the skull.
- noun In ichthyology, a bone of the scapular arch of some fishes by means of which that arch is attached to the back part of the skull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes.
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Page 30, Volume 2 man on this earth, rather than being postponed until some post-temporal life, after death.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT M. KINGDON 1968
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In fish the pectoral girdle is slung to the skull by means of the post-temporal bone
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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