occipital : Idioms & Phrases

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Occipital bone

  • noun a saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the skull
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  • (Anat.), the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult.
Webster 1913

occipital cortex

  • noun that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head
    occipital cortex.
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occipital gyrus

  • noun any of the convolutions of the outer surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum
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occipital lobe

  • noun that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head
    occipital cortex.
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Occipital point

  • (Anat.), the point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon.
Webster 1913

occipital protuberance

  • noun prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone
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occipital vein

  • noun a vein that drains the occipital region
    vena occipitalis.
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parieto-occipital fissure

  • noun a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres
    parieto-occipital fissure.
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parieto-occipital sulcus

  • noun a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres
    parieto-occipital fissure.
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