Occipital

What do we mean by occipital?

Of or relating to the occiput or to the occipital bone. adjective

The occipital bone. noun

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.

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. noun

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

The occipitalis muscle. noun

The occipital bone. noun

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

The bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult. adjective

The point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon. adjective

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

The occipital bone. noun

Of or relating to the occiput adjective

The occipital bone.

An occipital scale in reptiles.

Words that are spelled similarly to occipital:
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Words that rhyme with occipital:
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