1839 J. C. Prichard in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 9 204 By means of post-fixed particles it forms a present and a past tense, and it has been found to possess no other modification of the verb indicative of time.

1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vii. 282 The Aryan plural is formed by a postfixed s.

1975 Amer. Speech 1969 44 107 The endings of the English verbs have evolved in a continuing process from earliest Indo-European times, or perhaps more remotely from earliest Proto-Indo-European-Uralic-Altaic (at which time, one may surmise, they represented nothing more than postfixed pronominal forms).

1983 B. Cottle Names i. 16 ‘Nisaee Spioque Thaliaque Cymodoceque’ (it should be remembered that the post-fixed que means ‘and’).

1968 Jrnl. Cell Sci. 3 579 The tissue elements in the glutaraldehyde-perfused and OsO₄ post-fixed cortex are separated by narrow extracellular spaces.

1978 Jrnl. Microsc. 113 185 In postfixed tissue, fine filaments and vesicles were the major granule constituents.

1892 C. S. Sherrington in Jrnl. Physiol. 13 635 A plexus and its trunks and branches will..be referred to as prefixed if containing spinal root-filaments attached to the cord further forward (headward) than are the root-filaments entering the corresponding trunks and branches of a converse class of plexus which will be referred to conversely as postfixed.

1931 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 107 511 In animals with a ‘post-fixed’ sacral plexus this has been done by dividing extradurally the 6th and 7th post-thoracic dorsal roots... In animals with a normal or ‘pre-fixed’ sacral plexus only the 6th post-thoracic dorsal root has been divided.

1991 Muscle & Nerve 14 1213 Prefixed or postfixed innervation patterns were found in 27.9% of legs examined.

2003 Neurosurgery 53 676 A postfixed [brachial] plexus was observed in 2.5% of cases.