Occiput

//ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The back part of the head or skull.

    "And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes, and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput."

  2. 2
    back part of the head or skull wordnet

Synonyms

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afterpartbackback doorback seatbehindbreech

Example

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"And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes, and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occiput (“the back part of the head”). Compare sinciput.

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