occipital bone

English

human occipital bone

human skull, including occipital bone

Etymology

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

Noun

occipital bone (plural occipital bones)

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

Related terms

• occiput, occipita, occiputs
• occiput (Latin), occipita (Latin)

Translations

bone at the back of the skull

• Czech: týlní kost f
• Estonian: kuklaluu
• Finnish: takaraivonluu (fi)
• German: Hinterhauptbein n, Hinterhauptsbein n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἰνίον n (iníon)

• Hungarian: nyakszirtcsont (hu)
• Korean: 뒤통수뼈 (ko) (dwitongsuppyeo)
• Polish: potylica (pl) f
• Turkish: oksipital kemik

See also

• occipital bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia