paroccipital

paraoccipital

From para- +‎ occipital.

paroccipital (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

   paroccipital process

   paroccipital region

paroccipital (plural paroccipitals)

1. Alternative form of paraoccipital.
   • 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, "Chapter 1" in The Osteology of the Reptiles

     Only in the Cotylosauria primitively do the paroccipitals exist as distinct bones in the adult, articulating with the exoccipitals, supraoccipital, proötics, stapes, tabulars, and quadrates. On the inner side they help form, with the supraoccipital and proötics, the otic capsule. In the Theromorpha, so far as known, the paroccipitals are fused with the supraoccipital, suturally or loosely articulated with the exoccipitals.

• “paroccipital”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.