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postcentrum

noun
post·centrum | \"+\

Definition of postcentrum 

: 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

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New Latin, from post- + centrum

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