occipital bone

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English[edit]

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Skull, including occipital bone

Etymology[edit]

From the Latin word occiput, from the words ob, meaning behind, and caput, meaning head.

Noun[edit]

occipital bone (plural occipital bones)

  1. The bone at the back of the skull.

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