occipital bone

NOUN
  1. a saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the skull
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How To Use occipital bone In A Sentence

  • Behind the dorsum sellae is a shallow depression, the clivus, which slopes obliquely backward, and is continuous with the groove on the basioccipital (basilar portion of the occipital bone).
  • In consequence of this circumstance, the parts of the occipital bone which lie above and below the tuberosity make a much more acute angle with one another than is usual, whereby the hinder part of the base of the skull appears obliquely truncated. Essays
  • The neurosurgeon reduces the occipital protuberance by securing the central sagittal strip to the occipital bones using nonabsorbable sutures or 28-g surgical steel wire.
  • Articulation of the Atlas with the Occipital Bone (articulatio atlantoöccipitalis). III. Syndesmology. 5c. Articulations of the Vertebral Column with the Cranium
  • Her dyed blonde hair was cut short, bristly at the back of the head up to the occipital bone. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • For the model above the hair was waved with a stacked perm at the back of the neck to get volume up to the occipital bone, and layered and textured through the front.
  • —The alar ligaments are strong, rounded cords, which arise one on either side of the upper part of the odontoid process, and, passing obliquely upward and lateralward, are inserted into the rough depressions on the medial sides of the condyles of the occipital bone. III. Syndesmology. 5c. Articulations of the Vertebral Column with the Cranium
  • The atlas may be fused with the occipital bone in varying degrees.
  • For the model above the hair was waved with a stacked perm at the back of the neck to get volume up to the occipital bone, and layered and textured through the front.
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