occiput
Americannoun
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occiputs,
plural
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occipita
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of occiput
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin, equivalent to oc- oc- + -ciput, combining form of caput head
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The vertex presentation known as the occiput anterior vertex is the most common presentation and is associated with the greatest ease of vaginal birth.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
I felt her glance slide through me and out my occiput and knew that I was uncommonly transparent to her; that everybody was.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Suboccipital, sub-ok-sip′i-tal, adj. situated behind the occiput, or on the under surface of the occipital lobe of the brain.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Neck and Shoulders.—The neck should be fairly long, and tapering from the shoulders to the head, with sloping shoulders, the neck being free from throatiness, and slightly arched at the occiput.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams
There is one of these on the occiput that is in a triangular shape.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
He had put them into awkward and constrained attitudes, of course; and they all looked as if they had the instrument of torture which photographers call a head-rest under their occiputs.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
Twelve occiputs were flattened, and in four of these there was no tubercle; eighteen had an enormously developed occipital protuberance.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man.
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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