occipital

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to or located at the back of the head, especially the occipital bone or lobe

   The scan showed a fracture near the occipital bone at the back of the skull.

2. 2
   noun

   an occipital bone or, in zoology, an occipital scale

   The anatomist compared the left occipital with the surrounding skull bones.

Common collocations

• occipital gyrus Adjective + noun

Borrowed through French occipital from Medieval Latin occipitalis, formed from Latin occiput, 'the back of the head,' + -alis, the source of English -al. The anatomical adjective retains that literal location.

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