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Preorbital

Preorbital \Pre*or"bit*al\, a. (Anat.) Situated in front or the orbit.

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preorbital

a. 1 Occurring before an orbit is established. 2 (context anatomy English) Situated in front of the orbit.

Usage examples of "preorbital".

Garuda Bird loose as a preorbital flight test, then went on about the next step in the space program after the Bird got us into low orbit Loki was designing new sorceware to work the Indian Rope Trick from some spot on the equator 22,300 miles straight up to geosynchronous orbit, from which mages could project sorcery over big parts of the globe day and night.

Their most striking feature is a pair of crests, made of a paper-thin bone, along the preorbital portion of the skull roof in some species, or hornlike processes on nasal bones and above the eyes in others.