postorbital

[ pohst-awr-bi-tl ]

/ poʊstˈɔr bɪ tl /

located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.

Origin of postorbital

First recorded in 1825–35; post- + orbital

The postorbital processes of the frontals are totally wanting—there are not even the traces to be seen in Anomalurus.

The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia |Frank Evers Beddard
The bodies are moderately elongate, not eel-shaped, and the palato-quadrate articulates with the postorbital part of the skull.

A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) |David Starr Jordan
Belodon has preorbital vacuities and postorbital vacuities, but the orbit of the eye is never large, as in Pterodactyles.

Dragons of the Air |H. G. Seeley
A process from the jugal meets the postorbital process of the frontal completing the postorbital bar.

The Vertebrate Skeleton |Sidney H. Reynolds

The supratemporal is thus wedge-shaped and located between the parietal and the postorbital.

A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas |Theodore H. Eaton

postorbital

/ (pəʊstˈɔːbɪtəl) /

anatomy situated behind the eye or the eye socket

postorbital

[ pōst-ôr′bĭ-tl ]

Situated behind the socket of the eye.