postcentrum

noun

post·​centrum

"+

: a distinct posterior part of the centrum of a vertebra in some fishes formed by coossification of the interventral and interdorsal arcualia

—opposed to precentrum

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from post- + centrum

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