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occipital bone en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin occiput; compare ob- (“towards, against”) and caput (“head”)

Meanings

  1. The bone at the back of the skull in humans and various other animals.

Forms

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Relateds

occiput · occipita · occipita · occiputs · occiput

Translations (11)

ba соңҡа (bone at the back of the skull) · de Hinterhauptsbein (bone at the back of the skull) · tr oksipital kemik (bone at the back of the skull) · ko 뒤통수뼈 (bone at the back of the skull) · fi takaraivonluu (bone at the back of the skull) · et kuklaluu (bone at the back of the skull) · pl potylica (bone at the back of the skull) · grc ἰνίον (bone at the back of the skull) · de Hinterhauptbein (bone at the back of the skull) · hu nyakszirtcsont (bone at the back of the skull) · cs týlní kost (bone at the back of the skull)

wikidata: Q16317