The brain lies underneath the sinciput; the occiput is hollow. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
In the face the part below the sinciput and between the eyes is termed the forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
“And had I made the observation sooner,” continued the magistrate, “I might have spared myself a good deal of trouble and a headache which extends from my occiput to my sinciput.”. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
The front portion of it is termed ‘bregma’ or ‘sinciput’, developed after birth-for it is the last of all the bones in the body to acquire solidity, - the hinder part is termed the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head a system of ridges, divided by scalp-lines, and a fan-shaped tuft of scarlet-stained palm frond surmounts the poll. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
‘occiput’, and the part intervening between the sinciput and the occiput is the ‘crown’. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
Buckingham, first glancing slightly at the occiput and then at the sinciput of Allamistakeo, spoke as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5] Reference
The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
However, the consequence of this folly was, that in two or three days, I had to be sent home to my button-headed family in a high state of fever, and with a most violent and dangerous pain in the sinciput, all around about my organ of order. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
This gentleman, as sometimes happens to those of the learned professions, had rather more lore than knowledge, and began to talk of the sinciput and occiput, and cerebrum and cerebellum, until he exhausted David Ramsay's brief stock of patience. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
This gentleman, as sometimes happens to those of the learned professions, had rather more lore than knowledge, and began to talk of the sinciput and occiput, and cerebrum and cerebellum, until he exhausted David Ramsay’s brief stock of patience. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
‘sinciput’. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
Occiput or sinciput, deary? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost] Reference
This I resisted, and soon taught the ambitious son of Esculapius that the science of defence was as important as the art of healing; and that if he was skilful in this latter, I would give him an opportunity of employing it on his own person: whereupon I implanted on his sinciput, occiput, os frontis, os nasi, and all other vulnerable parts of his body, certain concussions calculated to stupify and benumb the sensorium, and to produce under each eye a quantity of black, extravasated blood; while, at the same time, a copious stream of carmine fluid issued from either nostril. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer] Reference
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