How To Use occiput In A Sentence
- 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. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
- I take that to mean books that pithed me straight through the occiput when I read them and changed the way I saw the world and my place in it, books that imprinted themselves so indelibly on my heart and mind that I don't have to have them in my hand to re-read them, I just need to shut my eyes and watch them unscroll in my imagination. Lance Mannion:
- It had entered just above and slightly forward of her right ear, but stopped short of midline; instead it went down and back toward the occiput. In the Still of the Night
- The skull is massive with a strongly defined occiput and marked stop.
- Together with the quadrates, the opisthotics and various dermal bones, such as the parietals and the squamosals, the bones of the occiput form the back of the skull.
- He had a bald brown face and scalp, no hair left between cheeks and occiput, though he wasn't past his middle forties. THE DISPOSSESSED
- In moderate deflexion, the occiput and sinciput meet the pelvic floor simultaneously, no internal rotation and the head persists in the oblique diameter.
- The head, which is relatively small, appears to be larger than it really is, owing to the development of the piliform tuft on the occiput, this being capable of erection so as to form a crest Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
- On abdominal examination, more than half the fetal head is above the symphysis pubis and the occiput is palpable at a higher level than the sinciput.
- Under whatever aspect we view this cranium, whether we regard its vertical depression, the enormous thickness of its supraciliary ridges, its sloped occiput, or its long and straight squamosal suture, we meet with ape-like characters, stamping it as the most pithecoid of human crania yet discovered. Essays
