What does the word occipital mean?
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That which be longs to the occiput.
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From External Carotid. BRANCHES. Muscular and Sterno-Mastoid to muscles of mastoid region; Mastoid and Meningeal to dura mater; Auricular to auricle; Princeps Cervicis to muscles of back of neck. ENDS in branches supplying occiput.
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[ Latin] Of, pertaining to, or situated in the occiput, or back part of the head( either inside or outside); as the O. bone, O. protuberance, O. muscle( Occipitalis= o. portion of occipito-frontalis), O. sinus, O. lobe( or region) of the brain, O. convolutions, O. arteries, O. nerves( Occipitalis major and minor). O. area, ( 1) see Area; ( 2) that portion of the brain coextensive with the o. bone, but comprising not quite the whole of the o. lobe. O. section, a transverse section made vertically through the middle of the o. lobe.
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Pertaining to the occiput.
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Usage examples for occipital
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Cephaloceles are covered by the scalp, and are most commonly met with in the occipital region and at the root of the nose; less frequently at the anterior inferior angle of the parietal bone, and in the line of the sagittal suture. – Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
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" Clean through the left side of the occipital bone," Malcolm Sage continued. – Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins
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