Word Meanings - POSTAXIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.

Related words: (words related to POSTAXIAL)

• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• TRANSVERSELY
  In a transverse manner.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• VERTEBRATE
  One of the Vertebrata.
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• CAUDAL
  Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin , the terminal fin of a fish.
• ANIMALISH
  Like an animal.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• POSTERIORITY
  The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
• BEHIND
  1. On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall. 2. Left after the departure of, whether this be by
• ANIMALISM
  The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• BICAUDAL
  Having, or terminating in, two tails.
• INTERTRANSVERSE
  Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
• INVERTEBRATED
  Having no backbone; invertebrate.
• SUBCAUDAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.
• BELL ANIMALCULE
  An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.