postcervical

English

Etymology

post- +‎ cervical

Adjective

postcervical (not comparable)

  1. Beyond the cervix
    • 2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0145168:
      Again, although we were unable to sample the entire axial column, the application of this rule and our observations that no postcervical centra were pneumatic suggest that the entire set of postcervical centra were apneumatic in Archaeornithomimus.
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