Occiput

Quick meaning: Occiput is a noun meaning (chiefly anatomy) The back part of the head or skull.

Meaning

(chiefly anatomy) The back part of the head or skull.

Example Sentences

He wore a large white cotton Nubian shirt, trimmed with red pompons, and shaved his head, except for one lock at the occiput ‘by which Mohammed lifts you up on Judgement Day’.

And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes, and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput.

Word Forms

• occipita
• occiputs

Antonyms for occiput

Common opposites include sinciput.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include posterior, rotates, occipital, supraocciput, basiocciput, sinciput.

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