occipital bone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I passed my hand absently across my hair - what Dixon had described as the occipital region. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Night] Reference
Above the foramen magnum the median supra-occipital bone completes what is called the occipital arch. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
You can see the occipital lobe, the temporal lobe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 3, 2004] Reference
Basilar processes of the sphenoid and occipital bones. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The occipital arch of the latter is invariably flattened. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
The headaches were occipital in nature and severe at times. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
C, parieto occipital lobe with fissure between this lobe and. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Cervical foramen: in coleopterous larvae - occipital foramen. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Cases 66 and 67 are instances of damage to both occipital lobes. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
In this instance an occipital lesion was associated with the parietal. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
In the third the occipital neuralgia was the only troublesome symptom. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The occipital bone, deeply depressed below the crest or ridge of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
It will be noted that in two instances the injury was to the left occipital lobe. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
At the back of her head was a boney knob, an occipital bun, that emphasized its length. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
The sphenoid bone is in front of the occipital, forming a part of the base of the skull. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
He looked a little like Dr Iannis, with his thin grey hair and prominent occipital bone. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Vision is evidently excited from the occipital lobes, though not yet conclusively proved. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference
D. External carotid artery branching into lingual, facial, temporal, and occipital arteries. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
OLIVER'S cranium, while Sir ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE will devote himself to the occipital Hinterland. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919] Reference
The occipital bone forms the lower part of the base of the skull, as well as the back of the head. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The arches or spinous processes are the occipital crest, the parietals, the frontals, and the nasals. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The "oblong marrow"; that portion of the brain which lies upon the basilar process of the occipital bone. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The scapula (with supra-scapula) is the pleurapophysis, the coracoid the hæmapophysis, of the occipital vertebra. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The lesion is one of the left occipital cortex in the cuneate lobe and the neighbourhood of the calcarine fissure. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Owen's reasons for considering the pectoral girdle and the fore-limb part of the occipital vertebra are as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
For about a year after, headaches were present almost continually, occipital in location and of a tingling sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
This instinct is located in the occipital region of the brain, and is called, in Phrenological language, Conjugality. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
The great lateral sinus is marked by the superior occipital ridge passing from the point B outwards to the mastoid process. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
This is what it looks like driving without distraction, this is the parietal and occipital lobes back here that I'm circling. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference
They are bounded anteriorly by the frontal bone, posteriorly by the occipital, and laterally by the temporal and sphenoid bones. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The occipital foramen, giving exit to the spinal cord, is a third longer, says Cuvier, in proportion to its breadth, than in the. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Left occipital, right occipital, left central, right central, occipital-hemming (ph) coherence and central-hemming (ph) coherence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008] Reference
The parietal lobes of the brain are not placed in the skull for the same purposes which the frontal and occipital lobes represent. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
The fore-limb is the developed "appendage" of the occipital vertebra, the hind-limb the developed "appendage" of the pelvic vertebra. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
His software read the patterns off her occipital cortex, translated them flawlessly into images projected onto his own tactical contacts. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
A single transverse wound, 2 inches in length, extended across the occipital bone, 2 inches above the level of the external protuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
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