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 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 This was followed by numbness in his left arm and finally the eruption of pain in his occipital area. Usman T. Malik, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020 In amateur writers, neurons fired in the lateral occipital areas, which are associated with visual processing. Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018 The effect, called enlarged external occipital protuberance, used to be so uncommon, Sayers said, that one of its early observers, toward the end of the 19th century, objected to its title. nola.com, 22 June 2019 This anatomical feature is called an external occipital protuberance, or EOP. Allen Kim, CNN, 21 June 2019 The bone spurs jut off of what’s called the external occipital protuberance (EOP) of the skull. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 June 2019 See More
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 This was followed by numbness in his left arm and finally the eruption of pain in his occipital area. Usman T. Malik, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020 In amateur writers, neurons fired in the lateral occipital areas, which are associated with visual processing. Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018 The effect, called enlarged external occipital protuberance, used to be so uncommon, Sayers said, that one of its early observers, toward the end of the 19th century, objected to its title. nola.com, 22 June 2019 This anatomical feature is called an external occipital protuberance, or EOP. Allen Kim, CNN, 21 June 2019 The bone spurs jut off of what’s called the external occipital protuberance (EOP) of the skull. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 June 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Middle French, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin occipitālis, from Latin occipit-, occiput occiput + -ālis -al entry 1
First Known Use
1541, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing occipital
Medical Definition
occipital 1 of 2
adjective
oc·cip·i·tal äk-ˈsip-ət-ᵊl
: of, relating to, or located within or near the occiput or the occipital bone
occipital
2 of 2noun
: occipital bone