occipital
IPA: ɑksˈɪpʌtʌɫ
noun
- (zootomy) An occipital scale in reptiles.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of occipital bone. [The bone at the back of the skull.]
adjective
- (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located within or near the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.
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Examples of "occipital" in Sentences
- Both groups suffered injuries most often in the occipital region at the back of the head.
- I passed my hand absently across my hair - what Dixon had described as the occipital region.
- Above the foramen magnum the median supra-occipital bone completes what is called the occipital arch.
- My first bullet pierced the frontal bone of his skull above his right eye and exited through the left occipital bone.
- A cotillion of neurons did their bob-and-whirl in my occipital lobe, and that created an electrical whoosh that the electrodes could easily pick up.
- Attention has focused on the “verbal conceptual association area,” located at the junction of the temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes of the brain.
- One such therapy, called occipital nerve stimulation, appears promising in the treatment of cluster headaches and migraines, studies show, although larger studies are needed.
- I felt very sorry for the man with occipital neuralgia, which causes intense stabbing pain on one side of the head, but my pain was bilateral and felt like pressure, not electrical shocks.
- 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.
- At first scholars thought that there had to be a command center within the brain to synthesize all the different functions exercised by the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and so forth—a command center to coordinate all this activity in order to be able to tell the limbs, the lungs, and so forth what to do.
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