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Quaternary :: Quaternary (a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man..

Post-mortem :: Post-mortem (a.) After death; as, post-mortem rigidity..

Necropsy :: Necropsy (n.) A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.

Post-obit :: Post-obit () Alt. of Post-obit bon.

Post-disseizor :: Post-disseizor (n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.

Post-temporal :: Post-temporal (a.) 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.

Enterotome :: Enterotome (n.) A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations..

Post- :: Post- () A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript..

Postmaster-general :: Postmaster-general (n.) The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.

Supraclavicular :: Supraclavicle (n.) A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post-temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.

Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..

Post-abdomen :: Post-abdomen (n.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.

Urosome :: Urosome (n.) The abdomen, or post-abdomen, of arthropods..

Autopsy :: Autopsy (a.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination..

Postmark :: Postmark (v. t.) To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel..

Costotome :: Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections..

Post-tympanic :: Post-tympanic (a.) Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus..

Post-tragus :: Post-tragus (n.) A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.

After-dinner :: After-dinner (a.) Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap..

Post-disseizin :: Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished..

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