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‖ postfurca Entom.|pəʊstˈfɜːkə|
[mod.L., f. post- A. 2 + furca fork.]
The hindmost of the three apodemes, or processes for attachment of muscles, in the thoracic somites of insects.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxiii. 383 Postfurca (the Postfurca). A process of the Endosternum, terminating in three subhorizontal acute branches, resembling the letter Y,..to which the muscles that move the hind-legs, &c. are affixed. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 404 Forked or double apodemes, the antefurca, medifurca, and postfurca, project from the sternal wall of each somite of the thorax into the cavity.
Hence postˈfurcal a., pertaining to or of the nature of a postfurca.
1890in Cent. Dict. |