occipital

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: Cf. F. occipital.

Anatomy Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone.

Occipital bone Anatomy, the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult. — Occipital point Anatomy, the point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon.

Anatomy The occipital bone.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54