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Definition of Occipital lobe
1. Noun. That part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head.
Terms within: Calcarine Fissure, Calcarine Sulcus, Occipital Gyrus, Area 17 Of Brodmann, Brodmann's Area 17, First Visual Area, Striate Area, Striate Cortex
Group relationships: Cerebral Cortex, Cerebral Mantle, Cortex, Pallium
Generic synonyms: Lobe
Definition of Occipital lobe
1. Noun. (anatomy) one of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain, located at the back of the head ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Occipital lobe
1. House the visual interpretation centres. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occipital Lobe
Literary usage of Occipital lobe
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)
"It is connected with the occipital lobe by the second annexant gyrus. ...
The occipital lobe.—The occipital lobe is divided on its external surface into ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"It is continued below into the second and third temporal gyri. occipital lobe.—This
lobe is very well marked off in Quadrumana by the deep cleft ..."
3. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The occipital lobe forms part of the supero-lateral, part of the inferior, part
of the medial surface of the hemisphere, and the occipital pole. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The occipital lobe is not limited to the upper tabular part of the occipital
bone, but extends forwards under cover of the posterior part of the parietal, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... OU TUBER anterior part of the occipital lobe has a well-marked vertical sulcus,
called the simian sulcus or ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"Diagnosis was made of an abscess in the left occipital lobe. ... The entire left
occipital lobe ns far forward as the sulcus parieto- ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"In the lower apes," he says, " the occipital lobe proves the victor ; it bulges
over the parietal lobe as far as the first ..."
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