exoccipital

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From exo- +‎ occipital.

Adjective

exoccipital (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foramen of the skull.

Noun

exoccipital (plural exoccipitals)

  1. (anatomy) Such a bone.
    • 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, "Chapter 1" in The Osteology of the Reptiles
      Primitively the exoccipitals took but little part in the formation of the occipital condyle, but in many later reptiles they form a large part, as in the Chelonia (Fig. 31 b), or even the whole, as in the Amphisbaenia (Fig. 56 b); or, by the recession of the basioccipital, the double condyles of the Cynodontia and mammals.
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