occipital

Of or relating to the occiput or to the occipital bone.

The occipital bone.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with the occiput or hindhead: opposed to sincipital.

Having a comparatively large cerebellum, as a person or people; having the hind part of the head more developed than the front.

In entomology See foramen.

Small, a branch of the second cervical nerve, supplying a portion of the back part of the scalp and the occipitalis and attollens aurem muscles. Also called occipitalis minor.

The intersection of the visual axis with the spherical field of regard behind the head.

Internal, the point of intersection of the vertical and horizontal ridges on the inner surface of the occipital bone.

In craniometry, one of two triangles, the superior and the inferior, having the biparietal and bimastoid diameters for their bases respectively, and their apices at the inion.

In zoology and anatomy, the occipital bone; the bone of the hindhead; a compound bone, consisting of a basioccipital, a supra-occipital, and a pair of exoccipital bones, circumscribing the foramen magnum, and together constituting the first or occipital segment of the skull.