occipital

adjective

oc·cip·i·tal äk-ˈsi-pə-tᵊl

: of, relating to, or located within or near the occiput or the occipital bone

occipital noun

occipitally adverb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The vertical occipital fasciculus (VOF) debuted in an atlas by German psychiatrist and anatomist Carl Wernicke in 1881. —

Jenny Blair, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015 Specifically, brain activity began in temporal regions instead of frontal, and there was no activity in occipital (visual) cortex or parietal areas. —

Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022 Suppose the occipital cortex had been more active in metal fans. —

Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017 These items — occipital, scapula, vertebrae — are the same types of bones mentioned by both Ellis Kerley and Alan Mann in their 1985 reports about Body G, whom Ellis Kerley identified as 12-year-old Delisha Africa. —

Bronwen Dickey, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022 The rider was taken to a hospital with serious injuries including a brain bleed, a lacerated liver and kidney, and an occipital fracture, police said. —

Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022 Flat bones are often present on the skull, encompassing your frontal and occipital bones. —

Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022 The region, called the fusiform gyrus, lines the base of the occipital and temporal lobes and is specialized for facial recognition. —

Susan Pinker, WSJ, 15 July 2021 That privilege belongs to more posterior regions—the parietal, temporal and occipital lobes. —

Christof Koch, Scientific American, 10 May 2021 See More

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