pertaining to or involving parts of the body that lie posterior to the head
Word origin
[1910–15; post- + cranial]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blackout, insulin, payoff, radio, zingpost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)
Examples of 'postcranial' in a sentence
postcranial
To reconstruct its 9-meter postcranial skeleton, we combined and size-adjusted multiple partial skeletons.
Paul C Sereno, Jeffrey A Wilson, Lawrence M Witmer, John A Whitlock, Abdoulaye Maga,Oumarou Ide, Timothy A Rowe 2007, 'Structural extremes in a cretaceous dinosaur.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2077925?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, a partial skull found in association with mandibular and postcranial remains was not described.
Juan Martin Leardi, Diego Pol, James Matthew Clark 2017, 'Detailed anatomy of the braincase of Macelognathus vagans Marsh, 1884 (Archosauria,Crocodylomorpha) using high resolution tomography and new insights on basal crocodylomorphphylogeny', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/2801.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Pull force correlates best with total body length, longer limbs and larger postcranial motions.
Domenic C D'Amore, Karen Moreno, Colin R McHenry, Stephen Wroe 2011, 'The effects of biting and pulling on the forces generated during feeding in the Komododragon (Varanus komodoensis).', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3197624?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The fossils consist of partial postcranial skeletons preserved mostly as natural molds in limestone.
NASROLLAH ABBASSI, DARYL P. DOMNING, NAVID NAVIDI IZAD, SAFOORA SHAKERI 2016, 'SIRENIA FOSSILS FROM QOM FORMATION (BURDIGALIAN) OF THE KABUDAR AHANG AREA, NORTHWESTIRAN', Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafiahttps://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/6901. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Preliminary counting of postcranial and cranial (non antler) cervid material points to about 70 cervids.
Jürgen Vollbrecht 2000, 'The antler finds at Bilzingsleben, excavations 1969-1993', Internet Archaeologyhttp://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue8/voll_index.html. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Studies linking postcranial morphology with locomotion in mammals are common.
Samuel Ginot, Lionel Hautier, Laurent Marivaux, Monique Vianey-Liaud 2016, 'Ecomorphological analysis of the astragalo-calcaneal complex in rodents and inferencesof locomotor behaviours in extinct rodent species', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/2393.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Functional and ecological implications are also investigated, based on the postcranial morphology and muscular reconstructions.
Morgan L Guignard, Agustin G Martinelli, Marina B Soares 2019, 'The postcranial anatomy of Brasilodon quadrangularis and the acquisition of mammaliaformtraits among non-mammaliaform cynodonts.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6510408?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
To better understand the evolutionary history of postcranial pneumaticity, studies have surveyed its distribution among non-avian dinosaurs.
Akinobu Watanabe, Maria Eugenia Leone Gold, Stephen L Brusatte, Roger B J Benson,Jonah Choiniere, Amy Davidson, Mark A Norell 2015, 'Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda)Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4684312?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)