Usually means: Skull bone, surrounds the brain.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. occipital bone: Merriam-Webster
  2. occipital bone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occipital bone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. occipital bone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. occipital bone: Vocabulary.com
  6. occipital bone: Wordnik
  7. Occipital bone: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. occipital bone: Wiktionary
  9. occipital bone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. occipital bone: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. occipital bone: Dictionary.com
  12. Occipital bone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. occipital bone: Rhymezone
  14. occipital bone: FreeDictionary.org
  15. occipital bone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. occipital bone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occipital bone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. occipital bone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bone, occipital, Occipital bone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Occipital Bone: Anatomy of the Human Body
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. occipital bone: Medical dictionary
  9. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Bone, occipital, Occipital bone: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (occipital bone)

▸ noun:  The bone at the back of the skull.

Similar:
occipital, occiput, exoccipital, occipital bun, supraoccipital, skullbone, occipitalisation, supraocciput, basiocciput, ethmoid bone, more...

Opposite:
frontal bone, temporal bone, parietal bone

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Similar:
occipital, occiput, exoccipital, occipital bun, supraoccipital, skullbone, occipitalisation, supraocciput, basiocciput, ethmoid bone, more...

Opposite:
frontal bone, temporal bone, parietal bone



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