occiput

IPA: ɑksˈɪpʊt

Examples of "occiput" in Sentences

‘occiput’, and the part intervening between the sinciput and the occiput is the ‘crown’.
The best birth position for your baby is occiput anterior head down, with the back of the head against your belly.
In three years, I relearned how to walk, stand and sit and discovered the location of my scapulae , ischia and occiput.
Shaffer et al., “Manual rotation of the fetal occiput: Predictors of success and delivery,” Obstet Gynecol 194 2006: e7-9; C.
It hurt a little to look at her; he wanted to kiss the underside of her arm, her ear, her occiput, but he knew it mustn't happen.
It had entered just above and slightly forward of her right ear, but stopped short of midline; instead it went down and back toward the occiput.
However, some babies assume an occiput posterior position head down, with the back of the head against your back, which often results in a longer, more painful labor.
Le Ray et al., “Manual rotation in occiput posterior or transverse positions: risk factors and consequences on the cesarean delivery rate,” Obstet Gynecol 110(4) (2007): 873-79; O.
I take that to mean books that pithed me straight through the occiput when I read them and changed the way I saw the world and my place in it, books that imprinted themselves so indelibly on my heart and mind that I don't have to have them in my hand to re-read them, I just need to shut my eyes and watch them unscroll in my imagination.