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Occipital bone

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The bone at the back of the skull in humans and various other animals.
  2. 2
    a saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the skull wordnet

Etymology

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

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