OCCIPUT (occipita)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: occipita   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does occiput mean? 

• OCCIPUT (noun)
  The noun OCCIPUT has 1 sense:

1. back part of the head or skull

  Familiarity information: OCCIPUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCIPUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Back part of the head or skull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("occiput" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Holonyms ("occiput" is a part of...):

human head (the head of a human being)

Derivation:

occipital (of or relating to the occiput)

 Context examples 

Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A finding during labor, in which the occiput rotates anteriorly and the head of the fetus assumes an oblique orientation while the fetus descends through the maternal pelvis.

(Internal Fetal Rotation, NCI Thesaurus)

The occiput is prominent.

(Afghan Hound, NCI Thesaurus)

The method is this: You take a hundred leaders of each party; you dispose them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size; then let two nice operators saw off the occiput of each couple at the same time, in such a manner that the brain may be equally divided.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)