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(anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the occipital and mastoid bones.
The practitioner sits behind the participant’s head, contacts participant’s lateral protuberances of the squama occipitalis (medially to the occipitomastoid suture) with the thenar eminence of both hands.
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Occipitomastoid means (anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the occipital and mastoid bones.
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The practitioner sits behind the participant’s head, contacts participant’s lateral protuberances of the squama occipitalis (medially to the occipitomastoid suture) with the thenar eminence of both hands.
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