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adj. Of or relating to the occiput or to the occipital bone: an occipital fracture.

n. The occipital bone.

adj. Of or pertaining to the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.

n. The occipital bone.

adj. Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone.

n. The occipital bone.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with the occiput or hindhead: opposed to sincipital.

Having a comparatively large cerebellum, as a person or people; having the hind part of the head more developed than the front.

In entomology See foramen.

Small, a branch of the second cervical nerve, supplying a portion of the back part of the scalp and the occipitalis and attollens aurem muscles. Also called occipitalis minor.

The intersection of the visual axis with the spherical field of regard behind the head.

Internal, the point of intersection of the vertical and horizontal ridges on the inner surface of the occipital bone.

In craniometry, one of two triangles, the superior and the inferior, having the biparietal and bimastoid diameters for their bases respectively, and their apices at the inion.

n. In zoology and anatomy, the occipital bone; the bone of the hindhead; a compound bone, consisting of a basioccipital, a supra-occipital, and a pair of exoccipital bones, circumscribing the foramen magnum, and together constituting the first or occipital segment of the skull.

n. In herpetology, one of a pair of plates or scutes upon the occiput of many serpents. See cut under Coluber.

n. The occipitalis muscle.

adj. of or relating to the occiput

"The position of the tentorium can easily be ascertained in your own head by the fact that where it crosses the median line there is a little projection of bone called the occipital knob, very prominent on some persons, barely perceptible on others."

occipital triangle    occipital condyle    occipital artery    occipital convolutions    occipital foramen   

occipital bun    occipital artery    occipital bone    occipital condyle    occipital arch   

parietal    iliac    frontal    pyriform    perisylvian