单词 | post-tympanic |
释义 | > as lemmaspost-tympanic post-tympanic adj. and n. Brit. /ˌpəʊs(t)tɪmˈpanɪk/ , U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˌtɪmˈpænɪk/ Zoology (a) adj. designating a process of the squamosal bone in some vertebrates which arches over the tympanic bone of the ear; (b) n. the post-tympanic bone.ΚΠ 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 236 A well-developed post-tympanic process. 1891 Amer. Naturalist 25 46 The post-tympanics are broad and heavy. 1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xiii. 318 From the hinder border of each squamosal a slender post-tympanic process arches backwards over the external auditory meatus, lying along the outer surface of the periotic. 1992 Systematic Biol. 41 73/2 External auditory meatus high, nearly enclosed ventrally by mutual contact of the squamosal, posttympanic, and postglenoid processes. < as lemmas |
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