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Definition of Occipital bone

1. Noun. A saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the skull.

Definition of Occipital bone

1. Noun. The bone at the back of the skull. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Occipital bone

1. The bone forming the rear (and rear bottom) of the skull. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Occipital Bone

Literary usage of Occipital bone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The Capsular Ligaments surround the condyles of the occipital bone, and connect them ... Articulation of the Axis with the occipital bone. Occipito-axial. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"The apex of the odontoid is so completely incorporated with the occipital bone, that, but for a slight crack on the right side, no appearance of the line of ..."

3. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The occipital bone forms the most caudal portion of the cranium, ... occipital bone, INNER SURFACE. a, basilar portion; b, lateral portions; r, ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Articulation of the Atlas with the occipital bone (articulatio ... —The articulation between the atlas and the occipital bone consists of a pair of ..."

5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The occipital bone is situated at the lower and back part of the cranium. In general form it is rhomboidal, and through its lower and anterior part passes a ..."

6. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"The occipital bone is of course that of the occiput, and it surrounds the great ... The part above the great foramen (so) is the supra-occipital bone, ..."

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