occipital

Pertaining to the area at the back of the head or at the base of the skull.

Pertaining to the occiput; located near the occipital bone, as the occipital lobe.

• o. bone — the unpaired bone constituting the back and part of the base of the skull.
• o. crest — see external occipital crest.
• o. fracture — see basisphenoid fracture.
• o. lobe — see occipital lobe.
• o. somites — the most anterior of the embryo's somites; they are the origin of the occipital cartilages of the skull.

The word occipital refers to several areas of the human body in the occiput, the rear of the skull:

• Occipital bone
• Occipital bun
• Occipital lobe
• Occipital scales
• Occipital artery
• Occipital vein
• Lesser occipital nerve
• Greater occipital nerve

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