Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or constituting that part of the occipital bone of the skull which lies on the right or left side of the foramen magnum.
- noun A lateral occipital bone; one of a pair of bones situated on each side of the basioccipital, and with this and generally with the supraoccipital circumscribing the foramen magnum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great
foremen of the skull.
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Examples
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The first relatively complete exoccipital-opisthotic from the braincase of the Callovian pliosaur, Liopleurodon.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The first relatively complete exoccipital-opisthotic from the braincase of the Callovian pliosaur, Liopleurodon.
Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006
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Anterior thoracic vertebrae have long spinous processes for muscles and ligaments inserting on the exoccipital region and nuchal area of the skull to stabilize the head.
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Beneath and towards the middle line of the skull is a part of another bone, which may be the paroccipital, or even exoccipital.
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