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occipital

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Definition:
Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone.
Occipital bone (Anat.), the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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If the Collected Sermons of Bishop Pontifex had shot from their shelf and struck him on the occipital bone, he could scarcely have gasped, gurgled and tottered more noticeably.

P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.82 (1971)
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In the surgeon’s deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon.

Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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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. Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man. 

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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